(pronounced MICK-vuh, also spelled mikvah), is a Jewish ritual bath. Almost every Jewish community has at least one mikveh (you can searchherefor a traditional mikveh, orherefor a non-Orthodox mikveh directory). In larger Jewish communities you might have a choice amongmikva’ot(plural for ...
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Gematria is a Jewish form of numerology in which the letters of the Hebrew alphabet are substituted with corresponding numbers. The first ten letters are given number valuesthat increase consecutively from 1 to 10. The next eight letters are given number values that increase by a factor of ten ...
Quennel: Lets look at Exodus 22:17 from the JPS bible, (Jewish translation which is much better then NIV) since we are dealing with a Jewish answer: And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. If ...
This is a sensitive and deep Jewish consciousness. Men and women of the Jewish nation know very well what it feels like to be a minority. We were there. Now, 29 years after that horrid assassination of an Israeli prime minister – and in the midst of a battle for the Jewish democratic...
It is not entirely clear why the rabbis did not have more discussion on the laws of war. It may be that because the rabbis lived at a time when Jews did not have a state or an army, they were not interested in these laws. Yet, there were other areas of Jewish law that were no ...
It is always easy to blame someone else when a problem arises, but by doing so we eliminate the possibility of finding solutions by diverting attention away from its root cause. To find the cause of Jewish suffering we need look no further than ourselves. ...