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Leprous Nazirites.

How to read the Torah.

Ulterior motives.

Welcome to Tractate Yevamot.

Peace is a central element of Jewish prayer, but what does praying for peace mean?

Imitating Queen Esther, Kurdish Jewish women used to bathe in the river on Purim night.

The inversion of expectations, so central to the Purim story, can be both thrilling and confining.

Purim and Yom Kippur appear to be complete opposites but the ancient rabbis say they are really two sides of the same coin.

Sometimes it is by dressing as someone else that we reveal our truest selves.

The biblical Book of Lamentations is chanted in a unique style, with each verse beginning in a major mode and ending in its relative minor mode.