The rabbis of antiquity used prohibitions to shape a Shabbat experience in which creative activity is set aside to make time for matters of the spirit. First of two parts.

One of my favorite poets, a slam poet named Vanessa Hidary, asks, in one of her remarkable pieces in which ...

Right of use.

The beloved Torah commentator also wrote a much-used commentary on the Talmud.

We have much to lift our spirits and much to concern us in the attention paid to young women laying ...

Their rule falls short of expectations.

So here we are in the last few hours of Hanukkah. I took a pretty low-key approach to the Holiday ...

I have always loved telling the Chanukah story because it is so much about the strength of the Jewish people.  ...

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Our Israelite ancestors wandered a wilderness of fear, scared to proceed, feeling small, wandering for the rest of their lives rather than moving forward through fear.