Rabbi Meni Even-Israel watched his father finish the Gemara at 73 and immediately ask for a new "mission," resulting in a ...

To read the first article in this series, Hanukkah - The celebration of the Oral Law, click here. Note: Footnotes have been omitted due to programming restraints. In the time of the second Beit ...

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The translation of the Torah negatively affects the uniqueness of the Jewish people in several ways. First, because the Jewish people were unified in Lashon Hakodesh – the holy language of the Torah - ...

Simchat Torah celebrates the role of the Torah in Jewish history. This holiday is not mandated by the Torah itself but emerged through Jewish custom over time. The practice of completing the Torah ...

The focus remains on “essential” Torah-related vocabulary from traditional sources, so it prioritizes core rabbinic, prophetic, and lifecycle terms over comprehensive lexicography. –Lack of ...

“Anyone who has never read the entire Chumash with Rashi is simply not Jewishly literate,” said Rabbi David Hartman, with whom I was studying 14 years ago at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.