How’s your prayer life? This is not exactly the first question that we ask one another in our Jewish communities; not because it is too intimate or personal, but because most of us don’t think of an inner life of prayer as central t...
If ever there was an example of the saying, “An embarrassment of riches”, it is this portion – Va-ethanan. A section that contains both the account of the revelation at Sinai – the Ten Commandments – and the first paragraph of t...
The ritual of the red heifer is the only way to rid a person of ritual pollution (tum’ah) after the person becomes tainted by contact with a dead person. Although there are many forms of ritual pollution, the type derived from contact w...
