Parashat Pekudei: The beauty of transparency
Nothing in the Torah is superfluous. From every word – and even from each letter – our sages derived halachic rulings or ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern California1 天
As free people, Israelites reclaimed their most precious commodity: Time
Liberation begins with God giving the Israelites control of their own time and inviting them to commemorate and sanctify ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency8 年
With full Talmud translation, online library hopes to make sages accessible
Sefaria, a website that aims to put the nearly infinite Jewish canon online for free, has published an acclaimed translation of the Talmud in English. NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a ...
Arutz Sheva16 天
Haman's sons learned Torah in Bnei Brak?
The Talmud in Tractate Gittin 57B teaches that the direct descendants of Haman the Amalekite (who lived in ancient Persia about 2,500 years ago) eventually became students of Torah in Bnei Brak in the ...
Religion News Service on MSN22 天
Making sense of the 'madwomen' in the Talmud
In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shows how the women in the Talmud may be ...
In Kolkata, a Jewish school centenary puts on the focus on the community’s rich legacy in ...
The legacy of the Elias Meyer Free School and Talmud Torah in Kolkata’s Bowbazaar, which is celebrating its centennial year, ...
BBC2 年
God and authority in Judaism
The Torah contains many laws that guide Jews on how to live a life that pleases God. The Torah contains 613 laws. These are known by Jews as the mitzvot. Jews use the Torah as a guide for living.
BBC6 年
Practices in Judaism Shabbat
No work is to be done on Shabbat. This includes tasks such as cooking and driving. Orthodox Jews close Orthodox JewsJews who live by the Torah and rabbinic law (halakhah) and who only accept ...