Although the Children of Israel lived in ארץ גשן, when they left Egypt, they left from רעמסס (Shemos 12:37). The land they lived in when

Our time in exile is what makes us who we are. To be the Jewish people, it seems that we needed to go through exile

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: At a hospital, is it necessary to have an eruv chatzerot (enclosure) to carry inside

In this week’s Parsha of Bo, we read that Hashem directs the Jewish people, through Moshe, to borrow money from their Egyptian neighbors. The verse

At a siyum at the end of a Talmudic masechet, a common practice is to recite the 10 “sons of Pappa.” They are חנינא בר

A few weeks ago I printed a story that I found in several 19th century sources. I looked into matters further and believe that Eton’s

By the ninth plague of darkness, Hashem said to Moshe (10:21-22), “Stretch forth your hand towards the heavens, and there shall be darkness upon the

It’s not often that we get the chance to engage with Jewish history through the lens of the weekly parsha. But when Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin

“It is a time of war, a time when we need so much shemirah, protection! How can we achieve shemirah? How can we invoke rachamei

By Nesanel Yoel Safran It took a lot of courage for the Jewish slaves in Egypt to do things that publicly showed that the false

The Torah sometimes says something of fundamental importance in what seems like a minor and incidental comment. There is a fine example of this near