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Jewish Time 5: Keeping Up with Tradition. Why Two-day Yom Tov?

After understanding why it is that we keep a double-standard year, and what was involved in creating the Jewish calendar, […]

In the two previous articles about Jewish time we discussed how todays time concepts make no sense without the light […]

Life, says Shlomo HaMelech, is full of circles. There are so many things that we do and experience over the […]

I was listening to a shiur while driving on the road this week. The topic was the ninth of Av, […]

Still kind of reeling at the slaughter of three Yidden at their Shabbos table this past Shabbos. The worst thing […]

The Writing of the Gemara and the Savorayim After we understood in the previous blog that the Talmud that we […]

In the previous blog, we discussed the source, the foundation and the need for the Mishna, the backbone of the […]

In the previous blog we spoke about the origin and the relationship between the written and oral Torah’s. We established […]

In my many years of teaching yeshiva guys I have found that one of the topics that suffers from the […]

One of the most favorite parts of the Haggaddah, and, indeed, the entire night of the Leil haSeder is when […]