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Conquering Anger
Anger is a challenging and problematic emotion that many feel at challenging times. Anger can be harmful to the person feeling the emotion and to oth…
6 years, 4 months ago
Tanach; Understanding Our Jewish Scriptures
The Hebrew scriptures includes 24 books that Jews consider holy. What are those 24 books? How are they organized?
6 years, 4 months ago
Why Jews Pray at Graves
For thousands of years Jews have prayed at the graves of our deceased loved ones and Tzaddikim (saintly individuals). But why do we pray at graves wh…
6 years, 4 months ago
How did Judaism splinter into so many factions?
Do you need a label to be Jewish?
Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist; where did all these labels come from? How did Judaism become so …
6 years, 4 months ago
Deborah the Prophetess
Deborah who lived more than 3,000 years ago was one of our 7 prophetesses mentioned in scripture. She was one of the few female Jewish leaders in anc…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Great Assembly and Its Impact on Judaism
The Great assembly or Knesset Hagedolah was a group of Jewish scholars and leaders led by Ezra that made a number of important contributions to Judai…
6 years, 4 months ago
Sexuality in Judaism
Sexuality drives some of the most powerful feelings and experiences that humans have. Sexuality is both a primitive human instinct as well as the glu…
6 years, 4 months ago
Where did the Jewish Year number come from?
We count a new Jewish year number every year starting a new year on Rosh Hashanah How did we get to that number? Jewish tradition tells us that our J…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Story of Samson
Samson was a Shofet, leader of Israel in the Shoftim period when Israel first settled in the land of Israel. He was best known for his superhuman str…
6 years, 4 months ago
Maimonides: The Man Who Organized Judaism
One of the greatest Jewish figures in our history was Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon known as Rambam of Maimonides who lived in the 12th in Egypt. This Sunda…
6 years, 5 months ago