Even though it was impossible.

These days, most of us purchase our bread already baked or, if we’re ambitious home bakers, buy flour and bake ...

The five grains.

Both leaven and honey are forbidden components of a mincha. As Leviticus 2:11 tells it, “No grain offering that you offer to God shall be ...

Most meal offerings require the addition of oil and/or frankincense to the grain. But some, like the meal offering of ...

Half and half.

Leviticus 6:13–15 describes a special offering made by the high priest: This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall ...

Drinking should enhance the celebration; it should not be dangerous.

Traditionally the tzitzit, ritual fringes, that Jews are commanded to wear on the corners of their garments are made of wool. This ...

The Daf Yomi (Hebrew for “page a day”), is a program for learning Talmud.  Participants study one page a day, ...