Women's mitzvot

The woman, the pillar of the Jewish home, has been gifted with three special mitzvot that are the foundation of Jewish living.

“Aren’t there way too many things that you have to do?” “Is there anything in your life that you wish you could do, but you can’t because you’re religious?” The questions came hurtling toward me, one after the next . . .

I had always been fascinated with tefillin (phylacteries), the two black leather boxes with Torah verses of parchment inside, worn on the head and wrapped around the arm. The basic explanation is that it is a way of connecting to our Creator and it is the...

The women grabbed my hands and joyously led me into the circle. It was one of my final Shabbat's in Israel after spending my Junior year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. I had decided prior to that year to become a rabbi...

An insight into the unspoken awe of the sanctity of women that can be seen in all the laws of family purity and Mikvah.

How (often) and what must women pray?

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The Torah tells us more about Rebecca than about any of our other matriarchs.

Each letter of her name stood for one of the three special mitzvahs gifted and entrusted to women.