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Can a Woman be a Shochet?
Shechita is the process of ritually slaughtering permitted animals in order to eat…
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Biblical Women and Music: A Love Story
Music is a gateway to one of the most transcendent experiences we can have in Olam Hazeh. Its language speaks not only to the body, but to the soul…
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Is Eating Healthy a Mitzvah?
Healthy eating is trendy and encompasses much of the daily social media platforms. Our generation is dealing with the most access and abundance than all prior generations…
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The ABCs of Prayer
One understanding of how prayer works is that rather than the prayer changing Hashem, instead, I am the one who is changed…
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10 Things I Learned From My Newborn
Having a baby is a busy time in one’s life – and doesn’t leave too much leftover for learning Torah. Nevertheless, over these last 7 weeks since I gave birth, I have found myself learning from the deepest sefer of all: my baby. Here are some of the lessons I’ve picked up… If I could…
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What is a Mitzvah and How Does it Work?
To attach ourselves to Hashem’s ratzon is to reach incredibly deep and high. To use our limbs to actually execute that will is to become an agent of His agenda, and thereby achieve a connection with a Source that is otherwise unreachable. We cannot experience in this world the effects of that relationship, but in…
