Today is the first Shabbat in the month that is usually referred to as ‘Cheshvan’. But there is some dispute as to whether that is actually its real name. The names of the Hebrew months have a somewhat surprising history. In the bible...
Tu B’Av is what we Jews have instead of Valentine’s Day. We learn of it from the end of Tractate Ta’anit, the tractate of the Talmud which discusses when and why Jews fast. Following its discussion of the fast of ...
The great question of the day is ‘eikhah’ – how? Today, as we commemorate the destruction of the First and Second Temples, along with the other calamities of Jewish history, we hear that word call out from the Book of Lamentatio...
