Bible/ Tanach

The breaching of the walls of Jerusalem. The fast day of the tenth of Tevet, which...

Arch of Titus in Rome We are currently in the midst of the weeks of mourning...

The great fortifications that the Hasmonean kings built and a law about Chanukah that teaches us a tremendous lesson about...

"Path of the Righteous" by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto is the primer on Jewish ethics. In it he describes a...

Chanukah is made up of 2 radically different components. One is the war. The other is the miraculous event of...

The Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court in Judaism, originated in biblical times and existed until the 5th century. In the 1500s...

The printing press changed civilization. Among its changes was a new area of Jewish law: copyright, which predated non-Jewish copyright...

When Pharaoh’s chariots attacked the defenseless Jews backed up against the Sea of Reeds it would take a miracle to...

It is hard to imagine a less probable heroine than Esther. On the surface, the Book...

  Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. (Exodus 25:8) The exact year of the...