This week’s parsha, Bamidbar is read prior to the Shavuot holiday. Rabbi Isaiah Halevy Horowitz, author of the Shnei Luhot Habrit, suggests that this Torah reading teaches us important lessons about ...

This week’s parsha, Bamidbar is always read on the Shabbat prior to the Shavuot holiday. This year is no different. Rabbi Isaiah Halevy Horowitz, author of the Shnei Luhot Habrit, suggests that this ...

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Everybody knows Shavu’ot is an important festival, but it doesn’t have a tractate to describe it. The others do – Pesachim, Rosh HaShanah, Yoma, Sukkah, even Megillah. There is no tractate of Chanukah ...

The Scroll of Ruth contains one of the most idyllic stories in the Bible, a tale of “autumnal love” between a widow (Ruth) and a widower (Boaz), within the backdrop of diaspora intermarriage, ...

In the Jewish tradition, the ultimate wedding celebration happens in springtime. During the festival of Shavuot, on Wednesday and Thursday this year, we celebrate the anniversary of the “marriage” of ...

Each week of the Jewish calendar has an assigned Bible reading. This week, we begin reading a new book of Torah (Bible) called Numbers. In Hebrew, the name is Bamidbar, meaning “In the Wilderness.” ...

Picture the following scene: Kol Nidre night. The rabbi of the packed synagogue walks to the Ark, declaiming, “Ribbono Shel Olam, on this holiest night of the year, I stand before you contrite, and ...

Mi at – “Who are you?” (Ruth 3:9) – So asked Boaz. It is a question that every human being asks from time to time. Especially on this weekend of Shavuot, of the great meeting between Israel and God on ...