Jewish Texts

The birth of Samson.

The sequence of the tractates in the Order

Yizkor is part of an ongoing conversation with the dead, but what we don't realize is that we constantly converse with the dead in daily life.

After burial Jewish law requires the mourner to turn from despair in the face of death to the affirmation of life.

The specific prohibitions on mourners during the shiva period reflect the mourner's sense of estrangement from the life force.

Two spies tour Jericho.

The Talmudic approach to the sciences, from astronomy to botany.

In recent centuries, Jewish law has developed tools for regulating the rights to intellectual property.

Jeremiah purchases a field in Anathoth.

Divine punishment is real.

On chosenness and holiness.

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