Read more: Explaining The Prohibition of Kol IshaIn Shir Hashirim, the allegorical love song between Hashem and His chosen people, Shlomo Hamelech praises the beauty of the woman’s voice: …Ki koleich arev – because your voice is sweet. It is from these words that the Gemara learns the dictum that kol b’isha ervah, a principle which often rings offensive to the modern ear and is controversial even in Orthodox circles. Let’s unpack the definitions, laws, and leniencies within this simple phrase…
-
-
Read more: Are Men and Women Equal in the Torah?Perhaps one of the most heated issues in our modern world is women’s status in Judaism…
-
Read more: What Is True Jewish Empathy?Don’t try to give instruction, advice or critique. Just carry the pain with them…
-
Explaining The Prohibition of Kol Isha
In Shir Hashirim, the allegorical love song between Hashem and His chosen people, Shlomo Hamelech praises the beauty of the woman’s voice: …Ki koleich arev – because your voice is sweet. It is from these words that the Gemara learns the dictum that kol b’isha ervah, a principle which often rings offensive to the modern…
-
Are Men and Women Equal in the Torah?
Perhaps one of the most heated issues in our modern world is women’s status in Judaism…
-
What Is True Jewish Empathy?
Don’t try to give instruction, advice or critique. Just carry the pain with them…
Most Popular
The Dance between Fear of Heaven and Human Effort November 3, 2024 Yosef sits in the dungeons, the lowly prison where Egyptian ‘criminals’ are left to die. He sits with the butler and baker, whose dreams he interprets. The baker, who will be put to death and the butler, who will be freed. To the butler, Yosef makes his appeal1: Please remind Pharaoh that I am here. Please beg him to set me free. I have been imprisoned unjustly. You are my only route into the palace. … Read more
Beruria: A Scholarly Woman Before Her Time November 3, 2024 It is rare that we find the name of a woman mentioned in the Talmud. Beruria was one such exception, a great Jewish woman whose wisdom, piety, and learning inspire us to this day. Beruria lived about one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Beit Hamikdash, which occurred in the year 70 CE. She was the daughter of the great Rabbi Chananiah ben Teradion, who was one of the “Ten Martyrs” whom the… Read more
Lech Lecha: Eretz Yisrael, The Homeland of Our Soul November 3, 2024 ‘To the land which I will show you.’1 In this week’s parsha, Hashem promises the land of Eretz Yisrael to Avraham and his descendants. Originally, before it was given over as a gift to the Jewish people, the land was called Canaan, because it is a place of complete hachna’a, submission, to the Divine Will. The love between Hashem, the land and the Jewish people is a most powerful and soul-stirring trio. Throughout the generations,… Read more