epub |eng | | Author:Jordan Lee Wagner

WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND THE SH’MA The Sh’ma is a self-referential statement. It contains Deuteronomy 6:7, which is a commandment incumbent upon Jews, that we fulfill by reciting the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bernice K. Weiss

EIGHT Conquering a Bitter Past Anna’s Triumph Anna was very nervous, almost afraid to talk when she walked into my office five years ago. But she was interested in her ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

ACTS OF MYSTERY Chok (plural chukim) is the deepest level of mitzvah and the hardest level to understand. Chok means law or decree and comes from the root meaning engraved. ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-16 | Author:Mark Schiff

* * * 33 Mashiach is the Hebrew word for “messiah.” The word messiah in English means “a savior or a hoped-for deliverer.” It is believed that when the messiah ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Michael Hilton [Rabbi Michael Hilton]

In the 1980s the United Synagogue oral test was replaced by a written bar mitzvah test with two levels, basic and advanced; those who passed the more advanced level had ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Charlie Kluge

FOR ALL THE amazing spiritual truths revealed in the tallit, there are also many myths and misconceptions associated with it. Some of the stories circulating about the tallit are not ...

pdf |en | | Author: Abraham I. Schecter (editor)

epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Naomi Levy [Levy, Naomi]

Later that night I wrote down these thoughts to myself in my journal: God believes in Noa. God believes in all people. And God is praying we will come to ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Vikki Weiss [Weiss, Vikki]

THE TEEN TOUR Many moneyed Jewish teens get to go on teen tours. This is a great way to spend the summer for kids too old for overnight camp. There ...

pdf | | | Author:Nicolas Thevenin, Philippe Bernard, Hélène Bourdon, Marcel Hibert, Camille-Georges Wermuth

epub |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Heschel, Abraham Joshua [Heschel, Abraham Joshua]

IMAGE AND DUST There are two ways in which the Bible speaks of the creation of man. In the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, which is devoted to ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:William M. Schniedewind

Ps 20:5 ytn lk klbbk, “He shall give to you according to your desire” Ps 37:21 ṣdyq ḥwnn wnwtn, “the righteous is generous and gives” Ps 37:26 kl hywm ḥwnn ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jordan D. Rosenblum

HOW TO OFFER A RABBINIC TOAST A fascinating final case study of the theme of symbolic inversion and illicit religious practice is the curious rabbinic category of “the ways of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jay Michaelson

Part Two ARETZ: PRACTICE 6 MIND: SEEKING AND STOPPING SEEKING Religious truths need verification by everyone. To see God is the one goal. —VIVEKANANDA1 I came to realize clearly that ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:salomo baal-shem, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki