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Nedarim 40

Like spilling blood.

Yoma 86

Great is repentance!

The Amidah: Standing Still to Receive God’s Blessings

The centerpiece of Jewish prayer, recited quietly three times each day, is the meeting place of our human yearnings with God's life-giving energy.

Initiative and Self-Sufficiency

God met the Israelites' need to relate to God on their own terms — we must do the same.

And The Loveliest Of All Was The Unicorn

The many interpretations of the tachash remind us to look beyond surface appearances for spiritual intensity.

Contemporary Wedding Issues

An overview of contemporary issues encountered in Jewish marriage: same-sex marriages, egalitarianism, prenuptial agreements, etc.

Why Bury?

A three-part argument against an increasing trend, even among Jews, towards cremation instead of burial.

Jewish Conceptions of God in the Middle Ages

An overview of medieval philosophic and kabbalistic approaches to God.

Tomas Trevino de Sobremonte

On April 11, 1649, Tomas Trevino de Sobremonte was burned at the stake in Mexico City, a victim of the Inquisition. His crime: practicing the rites and ceremonies of the

Facing Paris’s Black Marble Plaques

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

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