There is a verse so familiar that we don’t often stop to reflect on what it means. It is the line from the first paragraph

Interestingly, Sephardic Jews repeat the pasuk, “LaYehudim hayta ora v’simcha v’sasson vikar,” (Esther 8:16) at the end of the Megillah reading. In addition, both Sephardic

The mishkan was an ambitious project designed to craft a house of Hashem on Earth. The mishkan hosted daily korbanot, was the scene of national

One of the most popular Jewish books on the market currently is Angels in Orange, written by Rabbi Nachman Seltzer. In just six weeks, over

Rav Chaim of Volozhin was one of the important contributors to the development of Jewish thought and Torah study at the turn of the 19th

True Pleasure Last week, we saw that Rebbe Yaakov describes our world as the “corridor” that leads to the “palace” of the next world, where

In Parshat Pekudei, the Mishkan finally comes together. The Jewish people invested greatly in this holy project, donating precious gems and materials, fashioning the beautiful

Parshat Pekudei As our parsha closes sefer Shemot with a final accounting of the Mishkan construction and with its final assembly, so too, does our

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: Putting on tefillin, I (an Ashkenazi), after reciting “… l’haniach tefillin” and fastening the shel

QUESTION: Recently, while playing basketball, I tore my Achilles heel tendon. The recovery time, I am told, is six months. The doctor gave me a

וַיִּפְרֹשׂ אֶת הָאֹהֶל עַל הַמִּשְׁכָּן וַיָּשֶׂם אֶת מִכְסֵה הָאֹהֶל עָלָיו מִלְמָעְלָה כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְדֹוָד אֶת משֶׁה: (שמות מ:יט) “And he (Moshe) spread the covering on

One of the arguments supporting the notion that Mt. Sinai is in Saudi Arabia is that Moshe was living in מדין when he first went