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Bo: The Strengths and Limits of Stubbornness
Parshat Bo features the final three of the ten plagues: locusts, darkness and the killing of the firstborn. What may be almost impossible for us to understand is Pharaohs’s consistent refusal to let the Jews go…
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Bilha or the 5th Matriarch
As children we learn that the Jewish nation stemmed from our three forefathers, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov…
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The Rise of Chassidut
The Torah is an Eitz Chaim: a living, breathing source of truth. It is at once eternal and creative, staunchly rooted and widely open…
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Diverging Opinions on Head Covering
The way in which a married woman chooses to cover her hair is not as straightforward as an onlooker may imagine…
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Vaera: What The Plague of Hail Teaches Us About Relationships
The potential for adversity between husband and wife is not surprising…
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A Woman Spy: Where Halacha and Bravery Meet
In the recent war with Iran, it emerged that a French Jewish journalist turned Israeli spy…
