3+ hour, 15+ min ago  (708+ words) GOOD MORNING! Over the last several months I've had multiple readers email me about discussing the importance of healthy eating and regular exercise as part of one's daily regimen. A rabbi being overweight is practically a clich; individuals who are…...

11+ hour, 57+ min ago  (961+ words) Pearl Hinda Nagel survived the Lodz Ghetto, outlived the Nazis and turned 101. Here is what she wants you to know. Imagine the changes witnessed by someone born more than a hundred years ago, journeying from a 1924 childhood in the gas-lit,…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (200+ words) Ask the Rabbi > The Bible > Five Books of Moses > Book of Genesis " Other Full prep time: 35 min Thank you for your incisive question. You are right that on the surface the builders of the Tower did not seem to have…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (133+ words) Ask the Rabbi > Lifecycle > Death & Mourning > Mourning & Kaddish I am in the twelve months of mourning for my mother. Am I allowed to go on a vacation? I'm sorry for the loss of your mother. You may not go on…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (199+ words) Ask the Rabbi > The Bible > Oral Law & Torah Study > Talmudic Sources Full prep time: 35 min After the Exodus, when the Israelites were in the desert, some of them wrongly went out on Shabbat to search of manna. In response, God…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (624+ words) The sea didn't split until Machson jumped in. Here's how to take that first step when you're frozen with fear. What do you do when you don't know how to move forward? When you're stuck between a place that no…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (393+ words) Pharaoh accused the Jews of being a fifth column. So did Henry Ford, Lindbergh, and Tucker Carlson. The oldest lie in the world keeps finding new tellers. In the course of retelling the Passover story, the Haggadah quotes the passage…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1575+ words) Every wave of new technology produces the same response from experts: this will destroy quality. They're partly right. And partly protecting something else entirely. He had the treatise printed. Because that was the only way anyone would read it. This…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (758+ words) After October 7, some of the harshest voices against Israel were Jewish. The Haggadah saw this coming. Every year at the Seder, we read about four sons. The Fourth Son is the one who does not know how to ask. He…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (200+ words) Are you a slave without knowing it? What does real freedom look like?" Why Are Jews Obsessed With Leaving Egypt? Rabbi in the Hot Seat Are you a slave without knowing it? What does real freedom look like? 00: 00 " Welcome & Why…...