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Pekudei
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15 Facts You Should Know About the Jews of France
The country with the largest Jewish population, after the Land of Israel, French Jews have experienced both severe persecution and incredible growth.
The country with the largest Jewish population, after the Land of Israel, French Jews have experienced both severe persecution and incredible growth.
10 Questions: Take the Jewish Kingdoms Quiz
Do you know which Jewish kingdom once flourished in southern Arabia?
Do you know which Jewish kingdom once flourished in southern Arabia?
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Why Do We Spill Wine at the Seder?
While this custom is simple enough and pretty universal, its reason is far from elementary.
While this custom is simple enough and pretty universal, its reason is far from elementary.
How Do We Know There Won't Be Another Exile After This One?
The Jewish people have been redeemed twice before—once from Egyptian servitude and again from Babylonian exile. So what is it about the current dispersion that assures us the next redemption will be a permanent homecoming?
The Jewish people have been redeemed twice before—once from Egyptian servitude and again from Babylonian exile. So what is it about the current dispersion that assures us the next redemption will be a permanent homecoming?
The Freeman Files
The Moon and Us
To an ancient Greek or a Hindu, passive stillness is masculine, activity and motion are feminine. To a Taoist, action is masculine and passiveness is feminine. In other words, if it is a virtue it is masculine. The Jew turns the pyramid on its head
To an ancient Greek or a Hindu, passive stillness is masculine, activity and motion are feminine. To a Taoist, action is masculine and passiveness is feminine. In other words, if it is a virtue it is masculine. The Jew turns the pyramid on its head
Parshah
What Does the Word “Pekudei” Mean?
While it is commonly translated as “numbers” or “accounting” the term also lends itself to other interpretations.
While it is commonly translated as “numbers” or “accounting” the term also lends itself to other interpretations.
Getting to Know You
I find that life has gotten difficult. I wonder why G‑d has chosen to give me ALS.
I find that life has gotten difficult. I wonder why G‑d has chosen to give me ALS.
When a person builds a house, he makes the windows narrow on the outside and wider on the inside, so that they should draw in light from the outside. But when King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem he made the windows narrow within and wide without, so that its light should emanate to the outside and illuminate the world
— Midrash Tanchuma, Behaalotecha 2
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Meditate upon a ray of light that pierces through the window on a sunny day. Now imagine how that ray exists engulfed within its source, the sun.
Think of the entire universe as a stream of conscious thought. Imagine that thought in its place of conception, a place before words, before thoughts, a place where there is...
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