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Inasmuch as the members of the mahamad [board of governors] consider it a vile practice among us today for youngsters to strike with…
The love of the Sabbath “Remember and Keep” Preparing my way For Intellect and Soul,To greet the bride, Give joy to the tribes In mercy draw And say to my soul, My thoughts, my…
I wish to praise God
who is great in praises,
who created for man
all kinds of flowers,
and they all are singular
in their colors and scents
and of all the best ones
was the musk flower.
Above all…
And I have heard an amazing reason from an old man as to why music was absent from that feast [of King Ahasuerus], and I present it here, with a great number of additions to what I heard. These will…
And in it they will find a commentary appropriate to everyone and in it many precious midrashim, sharp pilpulim, light and weighty, Sinai and uprooter of mountains (Berakhot 64a, that is both breadth…
Every woman is obligated to kindle lights on the eve of each Sabbath and Festival and this is a great mitzvah. And she makes the blessing, “Blessed are You God, our Lord, King of the universe. Who has…
“…but Rabbi, even if I can read some of the prayers I still don’t understand what I’m saying.… To tell you the truth I’d rather take a quiet reflective walk in the park this…
I was asked by a resident in London concerning a portable electric lamp called “Kosher Lamp” which has a separate upper part which is made to direct the light or to cover it up altogether by twisting…
Miriam, one of the few women in the Bible to be called a prophet, provides an important opportunity for contemporary liturgists to expand the male-dominated framework of traditional Jewish prayer.
An imaginary Thanksgiving dinner attended by the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, George Washington, a Halloween witch, and a strutting peacock. A version of this…
