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Machshava/Jewish Thought

How Should Tanakh Be Taught in our Schools? An Attempt to Smash Some Contemporary Idols

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Posted on October 21, 2016

Tzelem Elokim and the Mishkan

by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Posted on October 21, 2016

Can Unethical People Be Holy?

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Posted on October 21, 2016

Making (Some) Sense of Amalek

by Miriam Gedwiser
Posted on October 21, 2016

Is it Really 5776? How and Why the Jewish Year Was Born

by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Posted on October 21, 2016

Separation or Engagement: Imitateo Dei and The Nature of Holiness

by Rabbi Dr. David Shatz
Posted on October 21, 2016

Postmodern Holiness: The Concept of Kedusha in the Writings of Rav Shagar

by Rabbi Josh Rosenfeld
Posted on October 21, 2016

Understanding the Mizmorei Tehilim of Kabbalat Shabbat

by Rabbi Dovi Nadel
Posted on October 21, 2016

Sh’nayim Ohazin: Restoring Kedusha in a World That Seems Abandoned by God

by Rabbi Ysoscher Katz
Posted on October 21, 2016

Woman of Folly, Woman of Valor: A Feminine Perspective on the Book of Proverbs

by Dr. Michelle Levine
Posted on October 21, 2016

Standing Again at Sinai

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on October 10, 2016

In one of his last instructions to the children of Israel, Moshe commands the people in the mitzvah of hakhel, a public reading of the Torah to take place once every seven years.  All the people are to be present: “Gather the nation: the men, the women, and the children, and the stranger who is in your gates” (31:12). …

Should Torah be a Choice?

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff
Posted on October 7, 2016

Although voluntary buy-in is a more motivational incentive than extrinsic reward and certainly more than threat of punishment, there may still be good reason to insist that Jewish education and general keeping of mitzvot be mandatory and not a choice. Declaring something as mandatory emphasizes its importance, and, despite emotional objections, it can help ingrain habits (especially in children) so that any alternative would be unthinkable.…