Jewish Texts

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Making Room for the Leper

When we embrace with one hand but push away with the other, it's the push that remains in lasting memory.

The Eternal Light

The sacrifices teach us about constancy in relating to God.

Judaism and Justice

The Jewish passion to repair the world.

Abraham Isaac Kook on Evolution

How evolutionary theory supports a mystical worldview.

Science and Creation: A Kabbalistic Approach

Modern cosmology meets traditional Jewish mysticism.

Arukh HaShulhan

The writings of Rabbi Yehiel Mekhel Epstein.

The Hayei Adam

The works of Rabbi Abraham Danzig.

Mishnah Berurah

The writings of the "Hafetz Hayyim," Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan.

Kitzur Shulhan Arukh

The writings of Solomon Ganzfried.

Writing Jewish Law: The 17th and 18th Century

A survey of the great post-Shulhan Arukh legal authorities.

In Ashkenaz

The rabbis of France and Germany created new genres of halakhic literature.

Commentaries on Alfasi

Alfasi's groundbreaking legal code invited criticism, defense, and supplementation.

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