Can abstract mathematics help solve real challenges in Orthodox communal life? That’s a question I have been answering over the past year. I had decided

Here’s another math problem to prepare for Chanukah. One day during Chanukah, Sarah overheard two of her friends talking: Rivky said, “My family lit a

Chanukah is coming up soon and that means we will see the number eight a lot. We have eight days and eight candles on the

In this week’s parsha, Yitzhak and his family settle for some time in Gerar, a city along the southern coast of Eretz Yisrael. The pasukim

In this week’s parsha, Rivka did the amazing act of chesed of watering all of Eliezer’s camels. Did you ever think about the total distance

In this week’s parsha, we learn how Avraham and Lot were very different. One way was how they lived. Avraham lived in a tent and

At the end of this week’s parsha, Hashem gives Avraham the mitzvah of brit milah. We know that a brit milah happens when a baby

In Parshat Noach we learn Hashem told Noach to build an ark according to a measurement called an amah. We usually translate this as “a

A kosher sukkah needs both walls and schach. The thing is that the walls and the schach do not get put together until the very

Many Jews know that the only time the Kohen Gadol entered the Holy of Holies in the Beit Hamikdash was on Yom Kippur. Did you

Hi. Can you help me? I thought of a four digit number yesterday but now I forgot it. All I can remember about it is

We have a lot to look for with Rosh Hashanah coming up! We get to hear the shofar, have simanim—the foods that hint to positive