Do We Count? By Mendel Jacobson
We have been freed from Egypt; no longer does slavery drive us and no longer do chains bind us. We have even crossed the sea, as it split before our eyes, and thus began our journey to the mountain. I have experienced all this (as I’m sure you have as well) and I’m counting down the days... Read
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Future Generations By Judith Bron
I looked at my oldest grandson right before his Bar Mitzvah and almost couldn't believe it, I was really standing in this place, in this moment. I couldn't help but think back to another boy, only nineteen years old, ripped away from the security of family and friends... Read
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Slideshow
Just Color By Abba Richman
It's just color, but oh, "To see a World in a Grain of Sand. And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand. And Eternity in an hour." View photos »
Travel Column
New York, New York… By Lisa Alcalay Klug
Each Passover, masses of New Yorkers experience their annual exodus from the city for warmer climes. But countless others pour into town to spend sedarim with friends and relatives. Whether your visit comes during Pesach, before or after... Read entire article »
Parsha Column
Parshiot Acharei - Kedoshim: Tears and Military Might By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
My friends in the galut. Go to your beit knesset or yeshiva and ask, beginning with the head functionary, what the number 22,305 means to him. Read entire article »
Pesach Sheni: Blessings By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
When analyzing the blessings, one could get the impression that although they relate to very basic issues, there is no common thread joining them nor a discernible intellectual framework which guided the rabbis who instituted the blessings... Read entire article »
Parshiot Acharei - Kedoshim: Tears and Military Might By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
My friends in the Diaspora, go to your synagogue or yeshiva and ask what the number 22,305 means to the people there... Read entire article »
The British Sailors and the Man Who Picked Figs By Rabbi Amichai Gordin, Yeshivat Har Etzion and Shaalvim High Holy and Secular - The British treasury officials were shocked. The mystery appeared to be unsolvable. The mail ships that sailed from England to America took two weeks longer than commercial ships plying the same route... Read entire article »
Q. "To do a less than thorough or complete job; to do something poorly or take short cuts"
That defines a term that also defines two prohibitions in this week's readings.
What is the term and what are the two prohibitions?
Last Week's Answer
Q. What two word mitzva is a perfect combination of part of Lech Lecha and part of this week's Torah reading? A.
The BRIT part is the "covenant of Avraham" aspect of the mitzva. The MILA part is the straightforward command from the beginning of Tazri'a. Each aspect gets its own mitzva-bracha
namely - ...AL HAMILA and ...L'HACHNISO BIVRITO SHEL AVRAHAM AVINU.
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