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12 Facts About the Mysterious Red Heifer

One of the Torah’s most enigmatic commandments that left even King Solomon, the wisest of all humans, utterly perplexed.
10 Questions: Take the Holy Temple Quiz

What do you know about this holiest spot on earth?
Your Questions
Does Forgiving My Father's Enemy Betray His Memory?

You are not betraying your father by ending a grudge he no longer carries; you are honoring his true wishes.
Freeman Files
What Is Chutzpah?

Chutzpah is a Hebrew word that has been adopted into Yiddish and then English. Chutzpah has been defined as audacity, insolence, impudence, gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible guts, presumption and arrogance. Yet something essential about chutzpah is missing from all these words.
Halachah for Life
Judaism and Pet Ownership: 18 FAQs

Explore some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Judaism and pet ownership.
Parshah
On Viperous Attitudes and Their Cures

When one manages to master, neutralize, and transform one's own inner serpent, no external serpent or viperous force can touch them.
History
Solomon Aben Yaesh: Turkish Statesman Who Publicly Embraced Judaism

Wealthy and well-connected, he was greeted by an official escort upon arriving in the Ottoman Empire. But what he did next surprised everyone.
Lifestyle
Not only myself did G-d redeem on this day... but also every one who goes by the name "Israel"
— The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, in a letter written for the first anniversary of his release from Soviet imprisonment in 1927
Print Magazine

Mitzvah (mits-va): An instruction in life from the Giver of Life.

A stroke of brilliance arising from the innermost will of the Creator of all things, left for you to perform on the stage of His world.

A connection point in time, at which Heaven meets Earth, Earth meets Heaven, and the two embrace.

An instance, left in...

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