…are prepared or not ready to be holy—to be righteous, kind and compassionate—we can come and participate and be included in the mitzvah. We can all participate in bringing holiness…
…to join (or “like”) one of our social networking pages on a social networking site (such as our Facebook page). In these situations, the social networking site may make some…
…Inasmuch as Leviticus 19:18 commands us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, compassion is at the center of Jewish tradition. So what bad thing happened to Aaron? It…
…own Jewish practice—or lack thereof—got Judah expelled from the Jewish community his own father had built. Judah was finally completely freed. In his adulthood, Judah would fight alongside white Christian…
…in his native Land of Israel, Rabbi Chayyim Yosef David Azulai (1724–1806) paused between his adventures to author, among other works, his Torah commentary Chomat Anakh, composed during the last…
…about reminders and memory: zakar. From Norm Fischer’s book, Training in Compassion, he says that perhaps we are not always as loving and compassionate as we want to be. We…
Our Ten Utterances: Commentary on Parashat Yitro 5783 By Rabbi Jonah Rank, President and Rosh Yeshivah of Hebrew Seminary The Ten Commandments simply aren’t what they used to be….
…Torah commentary, linking the words of our past to the values of our here and now. Committed to making Jewish life accessible, Hebrew Seminary’s weekly Torah commentary allows readers around…
…Shabbat, then Chanukkah, and then, little by little, the light will start to come back. The weekly Torah commentary of Hebrew Seminary: A Rabbinical School for Deaf…
…Shabbat, then Chanukkah, and then, little by little, the light will start to come back. The weekly Torah commentary of Hebrew Seminary: A Rabbinical School for Deaf…
