The theme of the Chosen People (am hanivchar) is repeated in a number of places in the Siddur, becoming a universally accepted principle of Jewish thought:
•From the blessing before …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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8/19/16
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This week’s Kosher Bookworm features an excerpt from an essay by the distinguished writer and thinker Michal Horowitz which will serve as the introduction to a series of review essays focusing …
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By Alan Gerber
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5/3/17
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This week’s parasha, the third from the book of Devorim, is Ekev, where we learn of the sole Biblical source for the mitzva to recite Birkat Hamazon, the Grace After Meals.
The third prayer …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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8/9/17
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Our parasha, Mishpatim, contains the ethically-infused mitzvah “mi’devar sheker tirchak” (“Distance yourself from a false matter,” Shemot 23:7).
In his Torah …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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1/31/19
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Perhaps the most powerful sensory experience in Judaism is the korban. Surrounded by the sights and scents of spiritual devotion and ritual sacrifice, we immerse ourselves in an environment that …
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By Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
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3/28/19
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With Yom Kippur just around the corner it is my honor to inform you of a new book authored by the prominent author, teacher and Israeli inspirational speaker Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi, titled, …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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10/3/19
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This week’s column is in tribute to one of our people’s greatest thinkers, Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits (1908-1992), who is widely ranked among the important Jewish philosophers of the …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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7/3/20
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The great writer Aaron Sorkin wrote: “Decisions are made by those who show up.” Sadly, if there’s anything the American Orthodox community has done over this past year, it has …
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By Rabbi Elchanan Poupko
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1/21/21
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The best-known theme in our parasha, Ki Tisa, is the Chet HaEgel (the Sin of the Golden Calf), the most grievous sin in our nation’s storied history. In addition, our sidrah contains the …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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2/16/22
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Last year, at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, a pro-Palestinian student threw a rock at Jews standing by Hillel. At the University of Oregon Hillel, vandals left an illiterate, hate-filled …
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By Gil Troy
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11/16/22
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