Breaking News

Updated at: 2:55 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: marriage,Torah,tradition,wedding

Yep. It's official. I'm engaged. So let me offer an original idea related to the breaking of the glass at the wedding ceremony. The ...More...

The Soul-ution

Updated at: 3:14 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: Torah

Questions, we will always have. Answers, few and far between. Imagine my surprise when a troubling Mishna in Pirkei Avot was finally explain...More...

Altar-native Lifestyle

Updated at: 9:46 AM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: altar,holidays,marriage,relationships,Torah

Rosh Hashanah sets the tone for the year. So for all of us who slept late, through prayer, & napped in the pm- may it be a restful, drea...More...

Hope Reclaimed

Updated at: 6:10 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: perspective,psychology,Torah

You know you couldn't get enough of matzah and indigestion, and apparently so did God, so here it is folks, Pesach Sheni. In Parshs BeHa...More...

Dairy Heir

Updated at: 6:52 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: holidays,Torah,tradition

I was never satisfied with the reasons given for our tradition of eating dairy on Shavuot, although quite satisfied with the cheesecake. Gem...More...

Yichus

Updated at: 8:39 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: psychology,Torah

R. Frand mentions that the sentences describing the forebearers of Israel's redeemers begins vague and anonymous: '"A man went ...More...

Post Rabbinic Post

Updated at: 1:57 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: perspective,Religion,Religious Journey,Torah,truth,writing

OK, so you graduated college and you think you'll never be bothered by another boring lecture. But there I go and shatter your illusions...More...

Road to Rabbinic Rule

Updated at: 4:15 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: creation,origins,redemption,Religion,Torah,writing

Two years ago the now defunct Recovering Orthodox Jew blogger recommended I read The Roots of Rabbinic Judaism by Gabriele Boccaccini. It w...More...

Cherubs

Updated at: 8:35 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: Archaeology,Cherubs,Torah

What do you get when you integrate Biblical archaeology, Biblical criticism, and a touch of the Bible? ....Certainly not an audience. Yet fo...More...

Noah & Lot

Updated at: 3:57 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: Torah

Parshablog noticed similarities in the stories of Noah and Lot. Both of them survived a destruction, got drunk afterward and committed carn...More...

Having Words With Rabbi Frand

Updated at: 1:11 PM. by Prevent Blackheads
Under Category: conflict,Rabbi Frand,Torah

Rabbi Frand is a great and insightful speaker and I really enjoyed his words. It's not easy to find a rabbi who seems to speak to you, y...More...