The title of this column alludes to a famous TV show. (For the handful of you who don’t understand it, it is not worth explaining.)

I wrote about this topic before, but in revising my article for my forthcoming book I came across a scholarly article that made me change

In the book of Isaiah, Chapter 6, the prophet has a vision in which he sees God sitting on a throne, with seraphim above him.

Last week, my column dealt with the recital of the Shema in the Musaf Kedusha. I wrote that various sources from the Geonic period had

I grew up using the Birnbaum Siddur. For years I stared at a line in its commentary about a prohibition of the recital of the

Although there are many theories, no one knows when and why the practice of the Haftarah was instituted. The ArtScroll Siddur includes the following statement:

Ve-higadeta le-vincha bayom hahu… (“You shall tell your son on that day”) is a key verse of the Seder night. But what exactly does vehigadeta

The background to the late 19th-century Jewish settlements in Israel was a wave of pogroms in Russia in 1881. This made most of Russian Jewry

Erev and boker are words that are well-known to us. But exactly how did they develop the meanings of “evening” and “morning”? The verb ayin-resh-bet

I spent many years researching this topic. It is time to keep everyone up to speed. Until the 19th century, a search in secular sources

Today, we pronounce the letter sin the same way as the letter samech. Was this always the case? And why do shin and sin share

As part of the Shema, we recite: ve-shinantam le-vanecha, ve-dibarta bam. But what exactly does that first word mean? From the context, we would expect