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Jonathan Sacks: Between Prophecy and Oracle Toldot

Jonathan Sacks: Between Prophecy and Oracle Toldot Rebecca, hitherto infertile, became pregnant. Suffering acute pain, “she went to inquire of the Lord” [vatelech lidrosh et Hashem] (Bereishit 25:22). The explanation she received was that she was carr

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Jonathan Sacks: Hopes and Fears CHAYEI SARAH

  Jonathan Sacks: Hopes and Fears CHAYEI SARAH The sedra of Chayei Sarah focuses on two episodes, both narrated at length and in intricate detail. Abraham buys a field with a cave as a burial place for Sarah, and he instructs his servant to find a wi

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Jonathan Sacks: Even Higher than Angels VAYERA

Jonathan Sacks: Even Higher than Angels VAYERA It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day when three strangers pass by. He urges them to rest and take some food. The text calls t

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Jonathan Sacks: Our Children Walk on Ahead LECH LECHA

Jonathan Sacks: Our Children Walk on Ahead LECH LECHA The call to Abraham, with which Lech Lecha begins, seems to come from nowhere: “Leave your land, your birthplace, and your father’s house, and go to a land which I will show you.” Nothing has pre

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Biblical tax notice: 1st-ever Assyrian inscription found near Jerusalem's Temple Mount | The Times of Israel

2,700-year-old fragment of pottery suggests Judeans delayed paying their tributes to the empire, echoing the events described in the book of II Kings

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Jonathan Sacks: True Morality Noach

Jonathan Sacks: True Morality Noach Is there such a thing as an objective basis of morality? For some time, in secular circles, the idea has seemed absurd. Morality is what we choose it to be. We are free to do what we like so long as we don’t harm othe

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Jonathan Sacks: A Living Book BEREISHIT

Jonathan Sacks: A Living Book BEREISHIT written by Rabbi Sacks in 2012 It is the most famous, majestic, and influential opening of any book in literature: “… בּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א” “When God began creating heaven and earth, the ear

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Jonathan Sacks: Moses the Man Ha’azinu

  Jonathan Sacks: Moses the Man Ha’azinu That very day the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel

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Jonathan Sacks: Yom Kippur How It Changes Us

Jonathan Sacks: Yom Kippur How It Changes Us Read an extract from the Koren Sacks Yom Kippur machzor. To those who fully open themselves to it, Yom Kippur is a life-transforming experience. It tells us that God, who created the universe in love and forgiv

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Jonathan Sacks: The Heart, the Home, the Text-Vayelech

Jonathan Sacks: The Heart, the Home, the Text-Vayelech By now Moses had given 612 commands to the Israelites. But there was one further instruction he still had to give, the last of his life, the final mitzva in the Torah. Now therefore write this song an

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Jonathan Sacks: Why Be Jewish? ניצבים

Jonathan Sacks: Why Be Jewish In the last days of his life, Moses renews the covenant between God and Israel. The entire book of Devarim has been an account of the covenant – how it came about, what its terms and conditions are, why it is the core of Is

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Jonathan Sacks: Listening and Law Ki Tavo

Jonathan Sacks: Listening and Law Ki Tavo It would be reasonable to assume that a language containing the verb “to command” must also contain the verb “to obey.” The one implies the other, just as the concept of a question implies the possibility

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Jonathan Sacks: Greatness is Humility SHOFTIM

Jonathan Sacks: Greatness is Humility SHOFTIM There is a fascinating detail in the passage about the king in this week’s Parsha. The text says: “As he presides upon his royal throne, he must inscribe a copy of this Torah for himself upon a scroll, in

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References to Moses Found in Exodus-Era Sinai Inscriptions

Ancient Sinai inscriptions may hold the earliest extra-Biblical references to Moses, sparking fresh debate over the Exodus and the origins of the alphabet.

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Ancient Moses inscription discovered at Egyptian turquoise mining site | Fox News

Researcher claims to have found 3,800-year-old inscriptions referencing "Moshe" in Egyptian desert, potentially the oldest written mention outside the Bible.

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Jonathan Sacks: A Tiny, Treasured People Va’etchanan

Jonathan Sacks: A Tiny, Treasured People Va’etchanan There is a statement made towards the end of Parshat Va’etchanan, and it is so inconspicuous that we can sometimes miss it, but it is a statement with such far reaching implications that it chal

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Jonathan Sacks: The Prophetic Voice MATOT-MASEI

Jonathan Sacks: The Prophetic Voice MATOT-MASEI During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing passages in the prophetic literature, the first two from the opening

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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT PINCHAS: HOW TO BE A HOLY ZEALOT

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT PINCHAS: HOW TO BE A HOLY ZEALOT Parshat Pinchas begins by honoring Aaron’s grandson, Pinchas  for his zealous and immediate response to the Israelite male sinning in public view with the Midianite female. “When Pinchas, son of El

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Jonathan Sacks: The Zealot Pinchas

Jonathan Sacks: The Zealot Pinchas With Pinchas a new type enters the world of Israel: the zealot. “Pinchas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the Priest, has turned My anger away from the Israelites by being zealous with My zeal in their midst, so that I did

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Israel must apply Jewish sovereignty to Joseph's Tomb

Joseph was one of the founding fathers of the Jewish people. No other nation in the world would think twice about reclaiming its history. And neither should we.

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RAV KOOK ON Parshat Balak: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES

RAV KOOK ON Parshat Balak: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT BALAK: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES In Parshat Balak, the Torah recounts Balak’s hateful fear of Israel and his unsuccessful attempts to curse  Israel through the pro

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The Jewish Impact on the Founding of America

The Hebrew Bible played a major role in the creation of the United States and its democracy.

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Jonathan Sacks: Losing Miriam CHUKAT

Jonathan Sacks: Losing Miriam CHUKAT It is a scene that still has the power to shock and disturb. The people complain. There is no water. It is an old complaint and a predictable one. That is what happens in a desert. Moses should have been able to handle

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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT In Parshat Chukat, we read: “The Israelites arrived at the wilderness of Zin on the first new moon, and the people stayed at Kadesh. Miria

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Rav Kook: PARSHAT KORACH: the dangers of national and international KORACHISM

Rav Kook: PARSHAT KORACH: the dangers of national and international KORACHISM “Now Korach, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—descendants of Reuben—to rise up agai

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Jonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH

Jonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH written by Rabbi Sacks in 2012 “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?” Num. 16:3 So sa

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Jonathan Sacks: The Real World Shelach Lecha

Jonathan Sacks: The Real World Shelach Lecha The episode of the spies has rightly puzzled commentators throughout the centuries. How could they have got it so wrong? The land, they said, was as Moses had promised. It was indeed “flowing with milk and ho

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Israel and the Jewish People in Scripture - The Promised Land to the Chosen People - Chabad

The unbreakable bond between the Jewish People and the land of Israel is rooted in history, faith, and indigenous heritage, documented in the Hebrew Bible and carved into the hearts and minds of the Jewish People.

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Jonathan Sacks: Is a Leader a Nursing Father? BEHA’ALOTECHA

Jonathan Sacks: Is a Leader a Nursing Father? BEHA’ALOTECHA It was the emotional low of Moses’ life. After the drama at Sinai, the Revelation, the Golden Calf, the forgiveness, the building of the Tabernacle, and the book-length codes of purity an

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Your Unique Mission From Sinai - Beyond Speech

What is the significance of this
counting? What is the connection between this counting and Shavuot?

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Jonathan Sacks: The Limits of the Free Market Behar, Bechukotai

Jonathan Sacks: The Limits of the Free Market Behar, Bechukotai As I was writing this essay, a newspaper headline caught my eye. It read: “The UK’s richest people have defied the double-dip recession to become even richer over the past year.”[1]

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Jonathan Sacks: Eternity and Mortality Emor

Jonathan Sacks: Eternity and Mortality Emor Our Parsha begins with a restriction on the people for whom a kohen may become tamei, a word usually translated as defiled, impure, ceremonially unclean. A priest may not touch or be under the same roof as a dea

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Artifacts at Megiddo confirm clash between Josiah and Pharaoh Necho II

Discovery of Egyptian and Greek pottery indicates Egyptian military presence at Megiddo in 609 BCE.

There is so much archeology that confirm events in the Bible. Of course, nothing has to be proven, and archeology can’t find every existing artifact in any region. However, those who try to assert that it didn’t happen are lying. Usually, they are either atheists who are trying to convince themselves, or antisemites who want to diminish, or belittle, Jewish history. Too many people forget that the Bible is also a history of the Jews.

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Jonathan Sacks: Holiness and Childbirth TAZRIA – METZORA

Jonathan Sacks: Holiness and Childbirth TAZRIA – METZORA The sidrot of Tazria and Metzora contain laws which are among the most difficult to understand. They are about conditions of “impurity” arising from the fact that we are physical beings, e

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Jonathan Sacks: Food for Thought SHEMINI

Jonathan Sacks: Food for Thought SHEMINI The second half of Exodus and the first part of Leviticus form a carefully structured narrative. The Israelites are commanded to construct a Sanctuary. They carry out the command. This is followed by an account of

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Jonathan Sacks: Encampments & Journey- Vayakhel, Pekudei

Jonathan Sacks: Encampments & Journey- Vayakhel, Pekudei Right at the end of the book of Shemot, there is a textual difficulty so slight that it is easy to miss, yet – as interpreted by Rashi – it contains one of the great clues as to the nature of Je

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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYAKHEL: WE MUST BUILD A TEMPLE OF GENEROSITY AND KINDNESS

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYAKHEL: WE MUST BUILD A TEMPLE OF GENEROSITY AND KINDNESS וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶל־כׇּל־עֲדַ֥ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥

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Jonathan Sacks: Mirrors of Love Vayakhel

Jonathan Sacks: Mirrors of Love Vayakhel The Torah in Parshat Vayakhel, which describes the making of the Mishkan, goes out of its way to emphasise the role women played in it: The men accompanied the women, and those who wanted to make a donation brought

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13 Facts You Should Know About the Book of Esther - Chabad

The biblical book that tells the story of Purim, reading it from a handwritten scroll is one of the four mitzvahs of the holiday.

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Jonathan Sacks: The Aesthetic in Judaism Tetzaveh

Jonathan Sacks: The Aesthetic in Judaism Tetzaveh Why is the Torah so specific and emphatic, in this week’s Parsha, about the clothes to be worn by the Kohanim (Priests) and the Kohen Gadol (High Priest)? “These are the vestments that they shall make:

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Jonathan Sacks: The Architecture of Holiness TERUMAH

Jonathan Sacks: The Architecture of Holiness TERUMAH From here to the end of the book of Exodus the Torah describes, in painstaking detail and great length, the construction of the Mishkan, the first collective house of worship of the Jewish people. Preci

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Jonathan Sacks: The Slow End of Slavery MISHPATIM

Jonathan Sacks: The Slow End of Slavery MISHPATIM In Parshat Mishpatim we witness one of the great stylistic features of the Torah, namely its transition from narrative to law. Until now the book of Exodus has been primarily narrative: the story of the en

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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT YITRO: BECOMING A HOLY NATION BY ESTABLISHING A HOLY GOVERNMENT

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT YITRO: BECOMING A HOLY NATION BY ESTABLISHING A HOLY GOVERNMENT “וְאַתֶּ֧ם תִּֽהְיוּ־לִ֛י מַמְלֶ֥כֶת כֹּֽהֲנִ֖ים וְג֣וֹי קָד֑וֹשׁ“ “And you will be a kingdom of priests a

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Jonathan Sacks: The Custom that Refused to Die YITRO

Jonathan Sacks: The Custom that Refused to Die YITRO There’s an enthralling story about the Ten Commandments and the role they played in Jewish worship and the synagogue. It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three par

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Jonathan Sacks: Music, Language of the Soul BESHALLACH

Jonathan Sacks: Music, Language of the Soul BESHALLACH For the first time since their departure from Egypt, the Israelites do something together. They sing. “Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord.” Exodus 15:1 Rashi, explain

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Jonathan Sacks: Freedom and Truth VAERA

Jonathan Sacks: Freedom and Truth VAERA Why did Moses tell Pharaoh, if not a lie, then less than the full truth? Here is the conversation between him and Pharaoh after the fourth plague, arov, “swarms of insects”[1]: Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron

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Jonathan Sacks: Who am I? SHEMOT

Jonathan Sacks: Who am I? SHEMOT Moses’ second question to God at the Burning Bush was, ‘Who are You?’. He asks God in the following way: “So I will go to the Israelites and say, ‘Your fathers’ God sent me to you.’ They will immediat

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Jonathan Sacks: The Last Tears VAYECHI

Jonathan Sacks: The Last Tears VAYECHI At almost every stage of fraught encounter between Joseph and his family in Egypt, Joseph weeps. There are seven scenes of tears: 1. When the brothers came before him in Egypt for the first time, they said to one ano

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Jonathan Sacks: The Author of Our Lives MIKKETZ

Jonathan Sacks: The Author of Our Lives MIKKETZ It was Joseph’s first real attempt to take his fate into his own hands, and it failed. Or so it seemed. Consider the story so far, as set out in last week’s Parsha. Almost everything that happens in Jose

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Jonathan Sacks z”l: What is the theme of the stories of Genesis? וישב Vayeshev

Jonathan Sacks z”l: What is the theme of the stories of Genesis? וישב Vayeshev One of the most fundamental questions about the Torah turns out to be one of the hardest to answer. What, from God’s calling to Abraham in Genesis 12 to the death

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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYISHLACH:RESTORING THE BROTHERLY LOVE OF YAAKOV AND ESAU

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYISHLACH:RESTORING THE BROTHERLY LOVE OF YAAKOV AND ESAU “וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח יַעֲקֹ֤ב מַלְאָכִים֙ לְפָנָ֔יו אֶל־עֵשָׂ֖ו אָחִ֑יו אַ֥רְצָה שֵׂעִ֖יר שְׂדֵ֥ה א

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Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Jewish Journey VAYISHLACH

Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Jewish Journey VAYISHLACH Why is Jacob the father of our people, the hero of our faith? We are “the congregation of Jacob”, “the children of Israel.” Yet it was Abraham who began the Jewish journey, Isaac who was will

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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYETZEH: THE HOUSE OF JACOB’S UNIVERSAL MISSION

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYETZEH: THE HOUSE OF JACOB’S UNIVERSAL MISSION RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYETZEH: THE HOUSE OF JACOB’S UNIVERSAL MISSION “וַיֵּצֵא יַעֲקֹב מִבְּאֵר שָׁבַע וַיֵּלֶךְ חָרָנָה׃ – Jacob l

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Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Birth of the World’s Oldest Hate VAYETSE

Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Birth of the World’s Oldest Hate VAYETSE “Go and learn what Laban the Aramean sought to do to our father Jacob. Pharaoh made his decree only about the males whereas Laban sought to destroy everything.” This passage from

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Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Tragedy of Good Intentions TOLDOT

Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Tragedy of Good Intentions TOLDOT It is the deep, reverberating question at the heart of Toldot. Why did Rebecca tell Jacob to deceive Isaac and take Esau’s blessing? Her instruction is brisk and peremptory: “Now, my son,

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How Did David Defeat Goliath?

In the famous narrative, young David slays Goliath, the giant Philistine warrior, using a round pebble he collected from a brook.

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Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Next Chapter CHAYEI SARAH

Jonathan Sacks z”l: The Next Chapter CHAYEI SARAH One of the most striking features about Judaism in comparison with, say, Christianity or Islam, is that it is impossible to answer the question: Who is the central character of the drama of faith? In

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RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYERA: PERFECTING THE WORLD DOING RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE

RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYERA: PERFECTING THE WORLD DOING RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE  וְאַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם הָי֧וֹ יִֽהְיֶ֛ה לְג֥וֹי גָּד֖וֹל וְעָצ֑וּם וְנִ֨בְרְכוּ־ב֔וֹ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י

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Jonathan Sacks z”l: Walking Together VAYERA

Jonathan Sacks z”l: Walking Together VAYERA There is an image that haunts us across the millennia, fraught with emotion. It is the image of a man and his son walking side-by-side across a lonely landscape of shaded valleys and barren hills. The son

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Jonathan Sacks: The Power of Example LECH LECHA

Jonathan Sacks: The Power of Example LECH LECHA So familiar are we with the story of Abraham that we do not always stop to think about what a strange turn it is in the biblical narrative. If we fail to understand this, though, we may fail to understand th

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What Is the Jewish Approach to the Apocrypha?

The 24 books of the Bible were
canonized by the Anshei Knesset Hagedolah. Any later works are not
considered Divinely inspired.

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17 Facts You Should Know About the Five Books of Moses

Dictated by God and transcribed by Moses, these books convey God’s instructions on how we can fulfill our life’s mission.

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Where Is the Ark of the Covenant Today?

The Ark of the Covenant is the holiest item in Judaism. What happened to it?

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The Search for the Ten Lost Tribes

What happened to the ten tribes and where are they today?

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Archaeologists find 'mystery' ducts near biblical Jerusalem relics

The channels may have been used to prepare a commodity "connected to the economy of the temple or palace", said archaeologist Yuval Gadot in the statement.

Still waiting to find a "Palestinian" artifact that predates 1967,

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American Archeologists Unearth New Mosaic From 1,600 Year Old Synagogue In Israel

Excavations reveal mosaic artwork near the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq, in the Israeli Lower Galilee, led by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - Click the link for more details.

Still waiting for archeologists to uncover anything “Palestinian” from before 1967.

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21 Talmud Facts Every Jew Should Know

The bulk of the Talmudic texts contain analysis of Biblical verses and Torah law, but it’s interspersed with everything from medical advice to stories, from folk sayings to fabric dying tips.

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Judaism's Stance on Gender Is Clear, Despite Attempts To Rewrite Torah

Judaism teaches that G-d Created male and female so that they might partner with Him in creating a next generation.

No, the Talmud does not declare that there are “eight genders.”

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18 Facts About the “12 Spies”

Moses sent 12 spies to Canaan; 10 gave negative reports, causing 40 years of wandering.

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The Pursuit Of Meaning | Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l

For each of us G-d has a task: work to perform, a kindness to show, a gift to give, love to share, loneliness to ease, pain to heal, or broken lives to help mend.

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Should We Use Gender Neutral Language for G-d?

Judaism has been understood as the effort to reunite the feminine and masculine aspects of God.

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Ancient Book of Esther scrolls salvaged from Turkey earthquake rubble

A local elder of Antakya, Turkey's Jewish community handed the scrolls over to ZAKA rescuers, who are working on transporting them to safety.

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Treasured artifact from 2,800 years ago reveals written references to the biblical King David

Researchers have confirmed that a stone artifact from more than 2,800 years ago has written references to King David in the Bible. The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, dates back to approximately 840 BC. The 3-foot tall stone slab of black ba

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Researchers verify written records of biblical King David found off Dead Sea coast

The Mesha Stele, a basalt stone slab discovered in 1868 east of the Dead Sea that has provided historians the largest source of the Moabite language to date - Click the link for more details.

Absolutely incredible.

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What Does Jacob’s Ladder Symbolize?

Jacob’s simple ladder foreshadows the trajectory of human development.

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The Levite Choir and Orchestra: What, Who and How?

During the time of year that we mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple, it is customary to learn the laws of the Holy Temple as a means to hasten its rebuilding during the final redemption.

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1,600-Year-Old Mosaic Depicting Biblical Heroines Found in Ancient Synagogue in Israel

The Israelite commander Barak depicted in a mosaic in the ancient Huqoq synagogue in northern Israel. Photo: Jim Haberman The …

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Moses vs. the Gaslighter - Guest Columnists - Parshah

The people in the desert were being gaslit, and big time.

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The Not-So-Dead Sea Scrolls

How the Dead Sea Scrolls, considered by many to be the most significant archaeological discovery of the 20th century, speak to Jews in the 21st century.

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Elder Of Ziyon - No, Turkey is not returning the Siloam Inscription to Israel

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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17 Facts About Moses Every Jew Should Know

Moses was born in Egypt during the enslavement of the Jews. His parents, Amram and Yocheved, were from the illustrious tribe of Levi.

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Has the location of Noah’s Ark finally been proven using 3D scans? - The Jerusalem Post

The Torah tells us that the Ark landed on the hills of Mt. Ararat, a dormant volcano near the east border of Turkey. The Durupinar site is approximately 30 km south of that mountain.

Is it Noah’s Ark? Maybe. It’s an interesting idea.

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3,000-year-old inscription bearing name of biblical judge found in Israel - The Jerusalem Post

The inscription features the name "Jerubbaal," a Jewish leader from the Book of Judges, as well as dates from around 1,100 BCE.

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13 Facts About Learning Torah - Mitzvahs & Traditions

Torah study occupies a central place in Jewish life, but how much do we really know about this activity?

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Ancient cloth with Bible's purple dye found in Israel, dated to King David's era

3 scraps from 1,000 BCE, earliest such finds in region, point to Edomite kingdom described in Bible; vibrant and lasting 'royal' dye, mark of the elite, comes from murex sea snails

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Bishop Robert Barron: Genesis

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The book of Genesis - worth listening to. A good quote worth pondering on and very applicable to the functioning of the Democrats: "the Bible knows as Augustine saw there's something dysfunctional there [in cities]. Because of sin we tend to organize ourselves often through violence and scapegoating, in us against them and one against the other" at ~28min.