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What Do the Words Abba and Ima (Ema) Mean?

Though not originally Hebrew terms, they are now among the most commonly used Hebrew words.

Water Wells Within Rock

Beneath every seemingly impenetrable surface, life-giving waters await.

Why Jews Read the Song of Songs on Passover

Song of Songs is an erotic poem that compares young love to gazelles frolicking in the field. So why is it read on the holiday of liberation?

Exile as Vocation

The Gershonites turn displacement into sacred service.

Ask the Ethicist: Can I Read My Husband’s Texts?

I don't have reason to think he's cheating, but I'm the nervous type.

Singing On The Way

Despite the fear and exhaustion of journeying from a dark, narrow place, we must remember to accompany our arrivals with song and joy.

Singing God’s Song 

Brooding over a psalmist's question in the face of death.

Shir Hashirim: Joining Human and Divine Love

Song of Songs is unique among biblical texts for its pure expression of love.

The Global History of Ma Nishtana

Each year, Jewish children around the world learn the Four Questions. After all the image of the small child chanting ...

Risky Travels

It is always a long road to the Promised Land.

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