Read more: When Can Women Serve as Witnesses?Women are entrusted with the most crucial roles in Jewish life. Raising and educating children, ensuring the standard of kashrut and a stringent observance of family purity are central to preserving Jewish families and communities – and these mitzvot rely on the reliability and dedication of women. Why, then, are there cases in which women aren’t allowed to serve as witnesses or eidim? Two witnesses are required to validate Jewish marriages and divorces as well as to provide evidence in a rabbinical court. In these cases, there must be two adult male witnesses…
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Read more: Take a Deep Breath: The Power of Breathing in JudaismBreath plays a very important role in the relationship between man and his Creator…
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Read more: Bal Tashchit & Going Green: A Torah PerspectiveA story is told of the young Rav Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch, out walking one day alongside his father…
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When Can Women Serve as Witnesses?
Women are entrusted with the most crucial roles in Jewish life. Raising and educating children, ensuring the standard of kashrut and a stringent observance of family purity are central to preserving Jewish families and communities – and these mitzvot rely on the reliability and dedication of women. Why, then, are there cases in which women…
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Take a Deep Breath: The Power of Breathing in Judaism
Breath plays a very important role in the relationship between man and his Creator…
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Bal Tashchit & Going Green: A Torah Perspective
A story is told of the young Rav Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch, out walking one day alongside his father…
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