Jewish Texts

How to restore the world to a single divine reality.

By and large it is not only the preference for beauty that has spilled into Western culture, but also the equation between beauty and goodness.

Assumptions in Leviticus 18 are in some cases abhorrent to contemporary sensibilities.

Bringing new meaning to the status of a menstruating woman.

Behar affirms that the land belongs to God, and the land must be permitted to observe its Sabbaths, too.

All about the famous biblical dreamer who inspired a musical.

These two texts both shaped Rabbinic Judaism. But which came first?

Even when times are tough, we still must give.

Leaving Egypt was a change. Leaving slavery is a transition.

Moses's brother helped lead the Israelites to freedom.

The earliest exchange of halachic questions and answers.

During this time Babylonia was the spiritual and political center of Diaspora Jewry, and Jewish communities looked to the Geonim for authoritative teachings on halachic matters.