On the seventh day of Pesach, we will read "Shirat ha-Yam" (the Song of the Sea) marking a joyous celebration within the Exodus. At this...

Rava said, “A person is obligated to become intoxicated on Purim until they are unable to distinguish between ‘cursed is Haman’ and...

The rabbis of the gemara understood that creating the holiday of Chanukah was not a simple choice. Instituting a brakha on lighting...

In our last essay , we unpacked a debate between Ramban and Rambam about how to understand Birkot ha-Shachar. Are those brakhot  like a...

The adanim  were sockets that held together the structure of the mishkan . Without having them in place, the physical building simply...

The Architecture of the Sukkah Is the physical sukkah meant to be built like a permanent house or a flimsy tent? Is the experience of...

Teshuva as a Paradigm for the Interaction of Heart and Mind There is perhaps no area of Jewish Law or Jewish life where we experience the...

In the first quarter of the twentieth century, two great Jewish thinkers wrote essays with the same title, “ Halakha v’Agadda ,” or Law...