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12 Remarkable Jewish Women
These remarkable Jewish women have shown extraordinary leaders, offered comfort and hope, and injected creativity into the Jewish world.
Wise Fridays:
“Do not say, ‘Why should I lessen my own fortune by giving my money to this poor person?’ Bear in ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: There Is No Life
There is no life without a task; no person without a talent; no place without a fragment of God’s light ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: Obscenity
“Said Rabbi Hanan, the son of Rav: Everybody knows why the bride enters the bridal chamber, but if anyone speaks ...
Wise Fridays: Older and Wiser
“As regards scholars, the older they become the more wisdom they acquire…But as regards the ignorant, the older they become, ...
An Introduction to Wise Fridays
Hi! I’m Deah. Yes, my name does happen to be the same as the Hebrew word for “knowledge” — thank ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: On Suffering
Rabbi Yochanan once became ill, and Rabbi Hanina went to visit him. He asked him, “Are your sufferings welcome to ...
Wise Fridays: Adoption
Whoever brings up an orphan in his home is regarded by the Bible as though the child was born to ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Wise Fridays: Behaving Wisely
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” —Abba Eban Find more ...
Wise Fridays: Learning to Lie
One should not promise a child something, and then not give it to him, because as a result, the child ...