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The Hagada states “anyone who speaks at length about the miraculous event of leaving Egypt is praiseworthy.” The following analogy

More so than any other festival, the Seder-night is dedicated to children, because the Torah dictates that we must tell

A study was done a few years ago where two groups of people competed in a relay race. One group

Since the days of the Roman Empire two thousand years ago until Communist Russia in recent times, Brit Milah has

  Suddenly, I felt myself awakened during a flight by a rather startling question. Someone wanted to see my tzitzit

Today was the absolute worst day ever And don’t try to convince me that There’s something good in every day

Parshat Mishpatim appears very out of place in the book of Shmot, couched between: Bnei Yisrael’s extraordinary journey from downtrodden

As we prepare to read this week of the drowning of the Egyptian army in the red sea, I am

In this week’s parsha, the Jewish people receive their first mitzvah as a nation: the sanctification of the new month,

The ten plagues hold a central place in the Jewish redemption from Egypt and the commentaries find extensive meaning behind