In this parasha we find the source of the four- or five- cups of wine we are directed to drink at the Pesach Seder. There are ...
Nowadays, stressing the shva na is an accepted and fairly common element in many siddurim. But when Ishei Yisrael appeared, it wasn’t common at all.
Why are you here, Elijah?” — ma l’cha po, “what’s up with you, what’s wrong with you, that you are here?” Elijah responds ...
Following the tremendous success of the Selections from Likkutei Sichos series, which has made waves in communities across the Jewish world, SIE has released its first volume of Selections from ...
This was likely due to a desire to make it easier to follow prayer in the siddur, especially for those who were just taking their first steps in this new world. No less interesting and unique was ...
That villager distributed pages of the siddur to locals ... and of the kindly “older Jewish scholar named Dr. Landau” who traveled to teach him and his brother. There were a handful of ...
For his 1980 tour, he played gospel music exclusively. It was a confusing time for Dylan’s Jewish fans. As the movie suggests only obliquely, the guitar-carrying hitchhiker who tried to pass ...
(Complete ArtScroll Siddur) The war that the advocates of the use of force tend to invoke turns out to have been, in Jewish ritual, a victory of God and not of humans. Tradition emphasizes that ...
It is a fascinating study, incorporating the distress of the Jewish people throughout the ... when I opened my siddur (prayer book) to review it before the holiday. It is part of the Hanukkah ...