Our recent pieces have examined the hashkafah of some of the Torah’s central mitzvot. In addition to these and the many other mitzvot that relate to particular circumstances, the Torah adds several ...
Recently, we saw the intersection, of another murder spree at a synagogue in America, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel,an Israeli killed by indiscriminate terrorist rockets on civilians, and the ...
In some circles, it is assumed that the laws of kashrut (the dietary laws) are related to health. While there may be some truth to this argument, it is not a central factor. The Torah states that the ...
The posts on The New Spirituality blog are responses to Rabbi Sid Schwarz’s lead essay in his book, Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future (Jewish Lights). In that essay, ...
The Kedushah, part of the chazan's repetition of the Amidah, is built around biblical verses in which angels are heard praising God's holiness. The first verse is from Isaiah 6:3 where the prophet ...