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Yoni MozesonThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Midrash Tanchuma relates a cryptic reference to an event that would seem to be filled with extraordinary emotion. Shortly before his death, God showed...
On the first day of Rosh Hashanah (which is also the first of the 10 days of repentance) we read the extraordinary efforts of Chana to conceive. What...
Every time we blow shofar on Rosh Hashana we invoke the Akeida עֲקֵדָה (the binding of Yitzchak) to gain merit for the Jewish people. Avraham...
The backstory to this intriguing event presents itself as the survival manual for living in the diaspora. Ironically, the story as presented in our...