While the iconic soft drink has been on the market since 1886, only since 1935 has it been certified kosher, including for Passover. Rabbi Tobias Geffen, an Orthodox rabbi who served Atlanta’s ...
This Friday night practice is taken from the priestly blessing. Many Jewish parents embrace the custom of blessing their children on Friday evening. This custom is a nice way of bringing gratitude and ...
This phrase with kabbalistic roots has come to connote social justice. According to the Lurianic account, the first man, Adam, was intended to restore the divine sparks through mystical exercises, but ...
Whenever I had the slightest hint of a sore throat, the remedy in our Ashkenazi Jewish home was gogol mogol (kogel mogel in Polish). Gogol mogol is a Yiddish word for a shtetl recipe that dates back ...
The idea that a person or supernatural being can cause harm with a mere look — and the practices believed to ward it off. The “evil eye,” ayin ha’ra in Hebrew, is the idea that a person or ...
The link Maimonides found between confession and repentance. With regard to all the precepts of the Torah, both affirmative and negative, if a person transgresses any one of them, either willfully or ...
The Guide for the Perplexed tells us more about what God isn't than what God is. That also means that, in Aristotelian terms, one cannot actually say “God is . . .” and proceed to enumerate God’s ...
Dishes can be made of several substances: china, earthenware, glass, wood, various plastics, metal. Some can be kashered [made kosher], some cannot, some are debatable. Leviticus 6:21 says, “And the ...
Legal midrash on Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. All of these midrashim are line-by-line commentaries that tease laws or clarifications of laws out of the biblical text. Like most midrashim, ...
Though Jews and Christians have had a complicated and tense relationship, relations today are better than ever. The latter half of the 20th century saw a wholesale re-evaluation of the Christian ...
How traditional Jewish women prepare for monthly mikveh use. Most couples who are interested in observing the laws of niddah take classes or private lessons to learn all of the details. This article ...
Hoshanah Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot is a semi-holiday in its own right. Still counted among the days of Hol Hamoed (intermediate days of the festival), this day’s name means “the great hoshanah ...
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