by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 26, 2022 | Acharei Mot, Antisemitism, Purity
In Leviticus, God prohibits Israel from eating blood in the strictest terms. This prohibition also includes hunting and eating from the carcass of a dead animal (Leviticus 17:10-16), and the punishment for one who violates this is karet. In fact, the prohibition...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 14, 2022 | Exodus, Repentance
In a divine tour de force, God brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt with miracles and wonders including the ten plagues and the splitting of the sea. Never before had men witnessed such direct proof of God’s actions. Nonetheless, when Moses delayed in coming...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 3, 2021 | Chanukah, Haggai, Redemption, Temple
The Book of Maccabees is a collection of four volumes that recount the history of the Maccabees, the leaders of the Jewish rebellion against the Syrian king, Antiochus Epiphanes, and the Seleucid dynasty. They do not appear in the Jewish canon of the Tanakh (i.e....
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 11, 2021 | God, Holiness, Israel, Vayeitzei
Bethel, or Beit El in Hebrew, literally means ‘the house of God.’ It was first mentioned in the Bible as being near Ai and the place where Abram first pitched his tent upon entering the Land of Israel (Genesis 12:8). He built an altar there as he traveled to Egypt,...
by Mordi Levi | f 24, 2021 | Israel, Judges, Leadership
Deborah was a prophetess and the fourth judge of the Children of Israel during the time period of the Judges, the only woman to have held that position. Because the Children of Israel began to worship idols, God delivered them into the hands of the Canaanite king,...
