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Who Wrote the Haggadah?
The Haggadah, the book that we use for our Passover Seder is one of the oldest and probably the most widely used Jewish book. It has been printed tho…
2 years, 6 months ago
Selling Our Chametz
The Torah prohibits a Jew from owning Chametz on Passover. A common workaround to that prohibition is for Jews to sell their Chametz to a non-Jew bef…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sefer Yetzirah - The Book of Formation
One of the earliest works of Kabbalah is the Sefer Yetzirah - The Book of Formation, a very short book that describes the mystical building blocks of…
2 years, 6 months ago
What is the meaning of a Solar Eclipse?
Solar Eclipses are a natural phenomena that fascinated people back in ancient times. With over 3,000 years of history, our people have lived through …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Ancient Jewish Calendar
Today, we have a set Jewish calendar that has been in use for the past 1700 years. However, for the first 1600 years or so of Judaism, we used a var…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Jewish Response to Antisemitism
We have recently seen a huge increase in expressions of the world's greatest hatred antisemitism. Why do people hate Jews? Why has it persisted over …
2 years, 7 months ago
Why does our world have so many problems?
When we look around us, we see so many things going wrong in our own lives, people around us and the world on a whole. There seems to be endless viol…
2 years, 7 months ago
What are Chareidim?
Chareidim is a term often used for a segment of the Jewish community that live in their own communities and forgo some western cultural norms. They …
2 years, 7 months ago
The Battle for Shabbat
Shabbat, is one of the central parts of Judaism. From Judaism's earliest days, Jews stopped work on Friday before sundown and didn't resume working u…
2 years, 7 months ago
Mixing Milk & Meat
One of the basic Kosher laws is a prohibition of not mixing milk and meat. As a result, Kosher kitchen must have separate ovens, pots, pans and dishe…
2 years, 8 months ago