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If you are familiar with the fasts and festivals of the Jewish year, then you are probably aware of their historical background and moral significance, but what about their spiritual message? In this work, Rabbi Larry Tabick guides you through a vast array of Jewish mystical texts, drawn from Kabbalah and Hasidism, that offer deeper insight into these well-known occasions, their meaning, customs and practices. Many of these texts have never be...

Aside from their familiar use in the service at the opening and closing of the Ark, two verses from the sedra B'ha'alot'cha are unique. For, in the majority of Torah scrolls Bamidbar l0:35-36 is encased between two critical marks, each taking the form of an inverted nun, as if they are in parenthesis. Rabbi Y'hudah Hanasi said this is because it is an important book standing by itself. Sofer Sta"M Marc Michaels examines this unique visual midr...

An analysis of the biblical commandment to support the poor with particular reference to the Tannaitic interpretation in Sifre to D'varim 15:7-11 Ts'dakah - the giving of charity, or more properly acting righteously to another person to relieve them of a the burden of poverty is not merely a 'nice thing to do that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling' but according to Torah is a commandment. Discover how the ancient rabbis applied the Torah law to t...

Through this anthology of a life-time's poems, some songs, photos and a few sketches, Jonathan Magonet reflects on the stages of his journeys from medical doctor to rabbi professor, from post-war Germany to Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, from musical friendships and performances to immersion in the culture of Japan: on a quest to find his own unique voice.

What does a Rabbi DO? The traditional response is that he is invisible for six days of the week and inaudible on the seventh. But over three decades as a pastoral congregational rabbi in a variety of countries and contexts means that one accumulates a lot of stray thoughts and memories that just cry out to be written down - but carefully. Very carefully." Rabbi Walter Rothschild presents a second selection of his 'Tales', based on his own expe...

Too much screen time can be a bad thing for everyone! Will Popplethewaite ever understand why the children playing are so happy? Will the children rescue their Warm Fuzzy from his clutches? Or will they spend too much time staring at their E-Fuzzies to care? Find out in the 'The E-FUZZY'. A sequel to the excellent 'Original Warm Fuzzy Tale' by Claude M. Steiner. Written with kind permission of the original author. The positives of social inter...