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By the Numbers
14 Simple and Surprising Things Jews Do With Fire

Fire enhances life in a great many ways, while simultaneously being one of the most dangerous substances on earth.
Your Questions
Does a Soul Choose Its Family?

Judaism teaches that G-d chooses who our parents are, where we are born, and when.
Freeman Files
Heels Over Head

Every mitzvah, even a simple rule that we would have figured out on our own, is part of a covenant and connection that entirely transcends our limited reality.
Voices
My Friend Sami Rohr, the Torah Scholar

In spite of his very demanding business and growing family, Don Sami found time to study Torah
Parshah
Watch Out for That Last Thread

Anxious Parshah
The Sages taught: Always appoint at least two people together as trustees over public funds. Even Moses, of whom it is written (Numbers 12:7) "In all My house, he is trusted," figured the accounts of the Sanctuary together with others, as it says (Exodus 38:21): "By the hand of Itamar the son of Aaron."
— Midrash Tanchuma
Print Magazine

Animals do not gaze in wonder at the stars and angels are confined to the realm of the spirit, but the human being is G‑d’s bridge between heaven and earth.

Our bodies are formed from the dust; our souls are of the essence of G‑d. We alone can look at a physical world and see spiritual life and beauty. We who are beyon...

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