Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
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In this introduction, I will present an overview of nevua (prophecy) throughout the biblical period. As such, it will be overly broad, with a goal to...
Rabbi Gad Eldad
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Even though God had already decided to destroy the cities of the Plain, He reveals His intentions to Avraham before He actually executes His plan. Once...
Dr. Yael Ziegler
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Eikha commemorates the climactic calamity of the Tanakh: the destruction of the First Temple and Jerusalem. Yet It does not attempt to relate a prose...
Dr. Yael Ziegler
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In this series on Eikha, we will examine broad themes, such as theodicy, false prophets, national sinning, and human suffering, but we will also engage in...
Rabbi Yair Kahn
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The four species relate to different aspects of the botanical world. They combine in a comprehensive manner, in order to generate the appropriate...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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There are two important novelties in the festival of Sukkot celebrated by those who returned from the Babylonian exile. First, it seems that they were ...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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King Shlomo inaugurated the First Temple on the festival of Sukkot. It appears that the timing of the event was not coincidental, but rather the result of...
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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There are two distinct mitzvot associated with Sukkot, with no immediately apparent connection
between them: the obligation to live in a sukka, a...
Rabbi Meir Shpiegelman
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The Torah establishes the obligation to take on Sukkot four species – the lulav, etrog, hadas and arava.
In practice, we actually take seven species: one...
Rabbi Gad Eldad
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Avraham wandered to the land of Canaan at the command of God. Since he remained childless, he may have considered the possibility that his nephew Lot, who...
