This week our MJL expert answers what to do about dog food during Passover. One of her answers is to ...

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...

Ezekiel presents regulations to be observed in the Third Temple.
Ashkenazic custom: Ezekiel 45:16-46:18
Sephardic custom: Ezekiel 45:18-46:15

The sequence of the six orders follows the precedent of Scripture

The rabbinic laws tumah and taharah are complex — let us orient you.

Ritual purity laws highlight the power of confronting mortality and the subsequent need to ritualize the reaffirmation of life.

As Jewish communities grew throughout the Muslim world, they developed their own rabbinical schools and scholars.

Just as the priest went out from the community to welcome back those afflicted with leprosy, we too should reach out to those who feel excluded.

An internal process of repentance must accompany the external, physical cleansing for leprosy.

Packed with meaning.