Linked Index

1. Conquest and Settlement
   

1. Saul, First King of Israel
   
2. King David
   
3. King Solomon
   

1. The Divided Kingdom
   

1. The Babylonian Exile
   
2. The Return to Judah
   
3. The Samaritans
   
4. The Hasmonean Revolt
   
5. Alexander the Great
   
6. The Hasmonean Period
   
7. The Nabateans
   

1. Rome Takes Over
   
2. Saducees, Pharisees, and Essenes
   
3. QUMRAN and
   
4. Turmoil in Judea Leading to Revolt
   
5. Jesus
   
6. The Great Revolt
   
7. The Fall of Masada
   
8. The Bar Kochba Revolt
   
9. From Bar Kochba to Constantine
   

1. The Early Church
   
2. Constantine and Helena
   
3. Judea Under Byzantine Rule
   
4. The Babylonian Jewish Community
   
5. Weights, Measures, and Coins
   
6. Heraclius
   

1. The Khazars Converted to Judaism
   
2. The Muslim Conquest
   
3. The Redaction of the Talmud
   
4. The Masorah and the Masoretes
   
5. Jews in Christian Europe and International Trade
   
6. Jews in Spain, 755CE-960's CE
   
7. The Legend of the Pirated Four Rabbis
   
8. The Great Hebrew Verb Root Controversy
   
9. The Karaites
   
10. The Gaonic Period
    
11. The Cairo Geniza
    

1. Fatimids and Seljuks: 909 CE-1100's CE
   
2. Golden Age of Muslim Spain Part I
   
3. The Almohads Disrupt the Golden Age of Spain
   
4. Golden Age of Spain, Part II: The Beginnings of Christian Reconquest
   
5. The Golden Age of Spain Tarnishes
   

1. The First Crusade Slaughters the Jews of the Rhineland
   
2. The First Crusade Conquers the Holy Land
   
3. The Second Crusade
   
4. The Third Crusade
   

1. Blood Accusations
   
2. The Fourth Lateran Council
   
3. Jews Are Expelled From England
   
4. The Jews Are Expelled From France
   
5. Medieval Germany
   
6. Chassidei Ashkenaz Movement
   
7. Italy: From 70-1300 CE
   
8. The Maimonidean Controversies
   
9. The Mamluks Control Egypt and Palestine
   
10. High Culture in Italy
    
11. The Riots of 1391 and Their Aftermath
    
12. The Disputation of Tortosa
    
13. The Spanish Inquisition Part I
    
14. The Spanish Inquisition, Part II: The Trial of LaGuardia
    
15. 1492: Jews are Expelled From Spain
    
16. Expulsion From Portugal
    
17. Brazil, Conversos, and the Slave Trade
    
18. "Jew-Free" Russia
    

1. Conversion Sermons and Carnival Foot Races
   
2. The Miracle of the Printing Press
   
3. The Creation of Rashi Script
   
4. February 23, 1488
   
5. The Netherlands: 1100-1654
   
6. The Rise of the Ottoman Turks and the Ordination Controversy
   
7. The Influence of Coffee on Kabbalistic All-Night and Midnight Vigils
   
8. Hungary
   
9. Germany in the 16th Century
   
10. The Development of Purim Spiels
    
11. The Court Jews
    
12. The Rise of Polish-Lithuanian Jewry
    
13. The Council of the Four Lands
    
14. The Chmielnicki Massacres of 1648-49
    
15. Shabbetai Tzvi
    
16. Pilpul and Baalei Shem
    
17. February 4, 1656
    
18. August 9, 1686
    
19. An Overview of Chmielnicki
    
20. An Historic Analysis of the Cossacks and the Chmielnicki Revolt
    

1. The Creation of the Pale of Settlement
   
2. The Baal Shem Tov
   
3. Elijah ben Solomon Zalman
   
4. The Haskalah
   
5. February 9, 1807
   
6. The Hep! Hep! Riots
   
7. Abraham Geiger
   
8. Czar Nicholas I: Cantonists and Public Secular Education
   
9. German Jewry: 1840-1914
   
10. Russia Under Czar Alexander II
    
11. The Infamous Damascus Affair
    
12. The Outrageous Mortara Case
    
13. The May Laws, 1882
    
14. YIVO
    
15. Hand-Washing at the Seder
    

1. Jews Come to America
   
2. American Jewry: 1776-1820
   
3. The Rise of German Jewry in America
   
4. From the Civil War to 1880
   
5. B'nai Brith
   
6. The Mass Migration from Eastern Europe
   
7. The Rise of Labor Unions
   

1. Palestine Under the Ottoman Turks
   
2. The Bilu and the First Aliyah
   
3. Eliezer Ben Yehudah
   
4. Theodor Herzl
   
5. The Jewish National Fund
   
6. The Second Aliyah, 1904-1914:
   
7. Palestine: 1914-1924
   
8. The Balfour Declaration
   
9. Britain's Perfidy
   
10. The British Lose Control
    
11. Israel Becomes a State
    
12. The Knesset, Israel's Parliament Was Founded
    
13. Israel Adopts the Law of Return
    
14. Operation Magic Carpet
    
15. El-Al, Israel's Airline
    
16. Immigration and Integration
    
17. Israel's Development Towns 1948-1961
    
18. The Lavon Affair
    
19. The Sinai Campaign of 1956
    
20. The PLO
    
21. The Six-Day War
    
22. The Yom Kippur War
    
23. The Entebbe Raid
    
24. The Good Fence
    
25. The Camp David Accord
    
26. The Horror of Lebanon
    
27. Kach and Gush Emunim
    
28. Beta Esrael: Ethiopian Jewry
    
29. The Intifada
    
30. Operation Exodus
    
31. The Gulf War 1991
    
32. The Oslo Accord
    

1. The Holocaust
   
2. A Catholic Understanding of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
   
3. A Lesson from the Holocaust
   
4. The Beginning of The Warsaw Ghetto Revolt
   
5. The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann
   

1. Nehemiah on: Ezra Reading the Torah
   
2. Josephus on the Conquests of Alexander the Great
   
3. The Book of Maccabees
   
4. Josephus on The Chanukah Story
   
5. Josephus on Essenes, Pharisees, and Saducees
   
6. Pliney the Elder on Qumran
   
7. Josephus on the Conflict Between John Hyrcanus and the Pharisees
   
8. Josephus Describe Herod's Metzada
   
9. Josephus Describes Herod's Caesarea
   
10. Josephus On How The War Began
    
11. Josephus' Description of Rome's War Against the Jews
    
12. Josephus on Sepphoris During the Great War
    
13. Josephus on the Destruction of the Second Temple
    
14. Medieval References to the Khazars
    
15. The Routes of the Radanites
    
16. Rabbi Nathan HaBavli's Description of the Kallot
    
17. Ibn Daud's Description of the Pirated Rabbis
    
18. Menachem ben Jacob's Poem to Hisdai ibn Shaprut
    
19. The Kuzari 's References to the Khazar Conversion to Judaism
    
20. Land Grant to Jews by the Bishop of Speyer
    
21. Slaughter of Some Rhineland Jews
    
22. The Taking of Jerusalem, July 1099
    
23. The Jews are Expelled From France in 1182
    
24. Battle of Hattin, 1187
    
25. Richard The Lion-Hearted Makes a Truce With Saladin
    
26. The Edict of the Expulsion From Spain
    
27. Eyewitness Description of the Expulsion From Spain
    
28. The Chmielnicki Atrocities
    
29. Saadia Gaon and RaMBaM on Repentance
    
30. Two Holocaust Readings
    
31. The Acquisition of the First Four Dead Sea Scrolls
    
32. Josephus' Description
    

1. The Bar Kochba Revolt
   
2. The Destruction of the Second Temple, Part I
   

1. The Yo Yo Diet of the Jewish Calendar Year
   
2. Internet Torah
   
3. Talmud on the Festival of Election
   
4. God's Total Quality Management Questionaire
   
5. Jewish Haiku
   
6. Hell and Chemistry
   
7. ABBOTT & COSTELLO LEARN HEBREW
   
8. Creation a la DOS
   
9. Fifteen Reasons Why God Never Got Tenure
   
10. Midrash of the Two Brothers: Old and New
    
11. Talmud Tractate Elections: Chad Part I
    
12. Talmud Tractate Elections: Chad Part II
    
13. God Impeachment?
    
14. A Conversation Between Moses and God
    
15. Halachah on Oreo Cookies
    
16. Top Ten Ways the Story of Purim Would be Different if it Occurred Today
    
17. Purim Humor
    
18. Why Did The Chicken Cross the Road?
    
19. HUMOR FROM RABBIS
    
20. PURIM HUMOR
    
21. PURIM HUMOR
    
22. THE YIDDISHKEIT CODE
    
23. BEN AND JERRY'S Jewish Flavors
    
24. Bread for Tashlich
    
25. Excerpts from Tractate Thanksgiving
    
26. The Repentance Hotline
    
27. Rosh HaShana Humor
    
28. Purim Humor
    
29. The Talmud Tractate Aufruf
    
30. Chanukah and the True Winter Dilemma
    
31. How Jews Respond to a Stop Sign
    
32. PURIM HUMOR
    

1. Abraham Ussishkin
   
2. Yehudai ben Nachman
   
3. Yehudi HaKadosh
   
4. Schneur Zalman
   
5. Lillian Wald
   
6. Rabbi Alexander Schindler
   
7. Chaim Weizmann
   
8. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise
   
9. Yigael Yadin
   
10. Rabbenu Gershom
    
11. Glueckel of Hameln
    
12. Yehudah Loew of Prague
    
13. Samuel Gompers
    
14. Rebecca Gratz
    
15. JUDAH HALEVI
    
16. Yehoshua Hankin
    
17. Hermann Cohen
    
18. HEROD, Despot and Great Builder
    
19. Sherira Gaon
    
20. Abba Hillel Silver
    
21. Isaac Bashevis Singer
    
22. Baruch Spinoza
    
23. Eliezer Sukenik
    
24. Solomon Sulzer
    
25. HENRIETTA SZOLD
    
26. Benjamin MiTudelo
    
27. Samson Raphael Hirsch
    
28. Samuel Holdheim
    
29. ABRAHAM IBN EZRA
    
30. Abraham Idelsohn
    
31. Zeev Jabotinsky
    
32. Israel Jacobson
    
33. Jose Antonio da Silva
    
34. JOSEPHUS
    
35. Franz Kafka
    
36. Joseph Karo
    
37. Rav Abraham Kook
    
38. Janusz Korczak
    
39. Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
    
40. Isaac Leeser
    
41. Louis Lewandoski
    
42. Levi Struass
    
43. Judah Magnes
    
44. Louis Marshall
    
45. Golda Meir
    
46. Hisdai ibn Shaprut
    
47. Moses Mendelssohn,
    
48. GRACIA MENDES
    
49. Samuel Mohilever
    
50. JUDAH HANASI
    
51. Natronai Gaon
    
52. Benjamin Netanyahu
    
53. Moshe Novomeysky
    
54. Jacob Ben Meir
    
55. Adolph Ochs
    
56. Onkelos and Aquila
    
57. Samuel Oppenheimer
    
58. Shimon Peres
    
59. Leon Pinsker
    
60. Abraham Ben David of Posquieres
    
61. Yitzchak Rabin
    
62. RaMBaM: Our Most Extraordinary Jewish Scholar
    
63. RaMBAN
    
64. Rashi
    
65. Bernard Revel
    
66. Emanuel Ringelblum
    
67. Ernestine Rose
    
68. Franz Rosenzweig
    
69. Salamone de' Rossi
    
70. The Rothschilds,
    
71. Meir ben Baruch
    
72. Saadia Gaon
    
73. Israel Salanter
    
74. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin
    
75. Solomon Schecter
    
76. Jacob Henry Schiff
    
77. Moses ben Jacob
    
78. Hannah Senesh
    
79. Yitzchak Shamir
    
80. Natan Sharansky
    
81. Ariel Sharon
    
82. Todros ben Judah HaLevi Abulafia
    
83. Abraham ben Samuel ben Abulafia
    
84. Isaac Albalia
    
85. Joseph ibn Abitur
    
86. Isaac ben Judah Abravanel
    
87. Meir Abulafia
    
88. Solomon ben Abraham Adret
    
89. The Ibn Alfakhar Family
    
90. Abraham Ben Maimon ben Moses
    
91. The Anav Family
    
92. Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph Astruc
    
93. Bachya ibn Paquda
    
94. Judah bar Barzillai
    
95. Louis Dembitz Brandeis
    
96. Samuel HeChassid
    
97. Judah Ben Samuel HeChassid
    
98. Levi ben Chaviv
    
99. Abraham bar Chiyya
    
100. Moses Ha Darshan
     
101. Shabbetai Donnolo
     
102. Dunash Ben Labrat
     
103. Jonathan Eibeschutz
     
104. Jacob Emden
     
105. Abraham ben Isaac
     
106. Solomon ibn Gabirol
     
107. Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi
     
108. Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghayyat
     
109. Isaac ibn Gikatilla
     
110. Samuel Gompers
     
111. Hai Ben Sherira
     
112. Samuel Ha-Nagid
     
113. Hananel ben Chushi'el
     
114. David Hayyuj
     
115. Judah HeChassid
     
116. Baron Maurice de Hirsch and Clara de Hirsch
     
117. Samuel ben Hofni
     
118. Moses ibn Ezra
     
119. Joseph Nasi
     
120. The Kalonymus Family
     
121. Meir Ben Samuel
     
122. Menachem ben Solomon Meiri
     
123. Meshullam ben Jacob
     
124. Joseph ibn Migash
     
125. Sir Moses Montefiore
     
126. Nathan Ben Yechiel
     
127. Ovadia ben Abraham Bertinoro
     
128. Joseph Picho
     
129. David Kimchi
     
130. Samuel ben Meir
     
131. Alfasi
     
132. Eleazar ben Judah of Worms
     
133. Samuel ben Meir Abulafia
     
134. Haym Salomon
     
135. Samson ben Abraham
     
136. Abraham Senior
     
137. The ibn Shoshan Family
     
138. Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier
     
139. Jacob Ben Meir
     
140. The ibn Tibbon Family
     
141. Todros ben Joseph HaLevi Abulafia
     
142. The ibn Waqar Family
     
143. Jonah ibn Yanach
     
144. Asher ben Yechiel
     
145. Yehudi ben Sheshet
     
146. The Ibn Zaddok Family
     
147. Isaac ben Judah Abravanel
     
148. Bella Abzug
     
149. Ahad HaAm
     
150. Solomon ben Moses HaLevi Alkabetz
     
151. Amram ben Sheshna
     
152. An-ski
     
153. The Ari
     
154. Chayim Arlosoroff
     
155. Jacob Ben Asher
     
156. Leo Baeck
     
157. BAR KOCHBA
     
158. Aaron ben Moses ben Asher
     
159. Menachem Begin
     
160. Menachem Mendel Beilis
     
161. David Ben Gurion
     
162. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev
     
163. Martin Buber
     
164. The Chafetz Chayim
     
165. Chanoch ben Moses
     
166. Chazon Ish
     
167. Chasdai Crescas
     
168. Abraham Ibn Daud
     
169. Moshe Dayan
     
170. Moses ben Shem Tov De Leon
     
171. David Einhorn
     
172. Albert Einstein
     
173. Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath
     
174. Eli Cohen
     
175. Emma Lazarus
     
176. Levi Eshkol
     
177. Sigmund Freud
     
178. Gaspar da Gama
     
179. Jewish Gangsters
     
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1. BIRTH AND CIRCUMCISION
   
2. Brit Milah and Brit Banot Ceremonies
   
3. BAR/BAT MITZVAH,
   
4. DEATH AND MOURNING
   
5. SOME JEWISH VIEWS ABOUT Abortion
   
6. A Complicated Circumcision About Twins
   
7. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, JEWISH STYLE
   

1. Breisheet
   
2. Noach
   
3. Torah Portion: Balak
   
4. Lech Lecha
   
5. VaYayra
   
6. Chayay Sarah
   
7. Toldot
   
8. VaYayTzay
   
9. VaYishlach
   
10. VaYayshev
    
11. MiKaytz
    
12. VaYigash
    
13. VaYechi
    
14. Shemot
    
15. VaAyra
    
16. The Torah Portion Bo
    
17. The Torah Portion, B'shallach
    
18. Yitro
    
19. Will the Real Ten Commandments Please Stand Up....
    
20. Mishpatim
    
21. Mishpatim
    
22. Hammurabi and Mishpatim
    
23. Terumah
    
24. Tetzaveh
    
25. Ki Tissa
    
26. VaYakhel-Pekudei
    
27. Pekuday
    
28. VaYakhel-Pekudei
    
29. Sacrifices Found in VaYikra
    
30. VaYikra
    
31. TZAV
    
32. The Bible on Passover
    
33. SHEMINI
    
34. Tazria
    
35. Metzora
    
36. Tazria-Metzora
    
37. Comparing Two Rituals
    
38. Kedoshim
    
39. Acharei Mot
    
40. EMOR
    
41. Bechukotai
    
42. Behar-Bechukotai
    
43. Behar-Bechukotai
    
44. BeMidbar
    
45. Naso
    
46. B'Haatlotcha:
    
47. Shelach Lecha
    
48. Korach
    
49. Chukat
    
50. Balak
    
51. Pinchas
    
52. Matot-Massei
    
53. Devarim
    
54. VaEtchanan
    
55. Ekev
    
56. Re'eh
    
57. Shoftim
    
58. Ki Taytzay
    
59. Deuteronomy 26:5-10
    
60. Ki Tavo
    
61. Joshua's Covenant Ceremony
    
62. Moses' Covenant Ceremony
    
63. Nitzavim
    
64. VaYaylech
    
65. Haazinu
    
66. V'Zot HaBrachah
    

1. The Jewish Tradition of Head Coverings
   
2. TZITZIT, TALLIT
   
3. RULES ABOUT CLOTHING
   
4. RULES ABOUT CLOTHING
   
5. JEWISH RULES ABOUT HAIR
   

1. ROSH CHODESH
   
2. SELECTIONS OF MISHNAH on Rosh Chodesh
   
3. SHABBAT
   
4. Kabbalat Shabbat
   
5. TALMUD ON HOW Rabbis Prepared for Shabbat
   
6. Running on Erev Shabbat
   
7. The Thirty-Nine Labors
   
8. CONSEQUENCES OF KEEPING SHABBAT and NOT KEEPING SHABBAT
   
9. Pikuach Nefesh
   
10. THREE SHABBAT STORIES
    
11. Two Loaves on Shabbat and Three Full Meals
    
12. Shabbat Oils and Wicks
    
13. The "Shabbes Goy"
    
14. HAVDALLAH
    
15. The Havdalah Ritual
    
16. The Origin of Saying a Blessing Over Fire at Havdallah
    
17. The Talmudic Ritual of Sweet-Smelling Oil
    
18. PASSOVER, FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM, BARLEY, AND LAMBS
    
19. The Fourteen Steps of a Seder
    
20. Searching for Chametz and the Meaning of
    
21. Some Regulations about Ritual Leaven-Searching
    
22. Leaven, Mice, Children, and a Nice Weasel Pun
    
23. Pot-Breaking for Pesach
    
24. Bread on Passover
    
25. Mishnah on the Order of the Seder
    
26. Matzah and Maror: Are Bitter Herbs Mandatory?
    
27. The Talmud on the Four Questions
    
28. The Four Sons
    
29. Passover Double-Dipping
    
30. Charoset
    
31. The Famous Rice Controversy
    
32. THE TALMUD ON Hillel and the Famous Passover Sandwich
    
33. The Afikoman
    
34. THE COUNTING OF THE OMER and LaG BaOmer
    
35. Omer-Counting
    
36. YOM HASHOAH
    
37. YOM HA'ATZMAUT
    
38. SHAVUOT
    
39. On What Day Was Torah Revealed?
    
40. Torah and Mishnah on The Bikkurim Ceremony
    
41. Two Loaves on Shavuot
    
42. TISHA B'AV
    
43. THE BIBLE TEXT ABOUT Tisha B'Av, 586 BCE
    
44. The Ninth of Av
    
45. A SERVICE FOR Tisha B'Av
    
46. The Fifteenth of Av
    
47. The Origin of the Fall Festivals
    
48. Rosh HaShanah
    
49. The Origin of Selichot
    
50. So When Was the Creation of the World?
    
51. Four Or More New Years!
    
52. Regulations about Blowing the Shofar
    
53. The Ten Days of Repentence
    
54. Yom Kippur
    
55. Regulations About "Self-Afflictions" on Yom Kippur
    
56. The High Priest's Ceremony on Yom Kippur
    
57. Satan's Impotence on Yom Kippur
    
58. Repentence and Atonement
    
59. Tension between Repentence and Yom Kippur
    
60. Asking Forgiveness and Forgiving
    
61. SUKKOT
    
62. Regulations Concerning the Lulav
    
63. The Mystery of the Etrog and its Regulations
    
64. The Willow Ceremony and Regulations Concerning the Willow
    
65. Regulations about the Sukkah
    
66. The Water Libation Ceremony and the Water-Drawing Ceremony
    
67. SIMCHAT TORAH
    
68. The Triennial Cycle of Torah Readings
    
69. CHANUKAH
    
70. The Chanukah Story According to the Talmud
    
71. Regulations About the Chanukah Lamp
    
72. TU BISHVAT
    
73. So When Do You Tax Fruit Trees?
    
74. The Four Special Shabbats Bracketing Adar
    
75. Regulations about the Arba Parashiyot
    
76. PURIM!
    
77. Regulations About Purim
    
78. Talmudic Imagery to the Book of Esther
    
79. Book of Esther Commentary
    
80. Purim at the Time of the Messiah
    
81. Study Versus Feasting on a Festival
    
82. Why You Can't Mix Two Joyous Occasions
    
83. How to Play Dreidl
    
84. Home Chanukah Ceremony
    
85. Four Special Torah Readings
    

1. The Tragic Tale of Issachar of Kefar Barkai
   
2. The Classic Tale of the Yochanan Ben Zakkai and the Sanhedrin
   
3. Titus, Who Destroyed the Temple
   
4. How Tur Malka was Destroyed
   
5. The Story of Beitar
   

1. CONVERSION TO JUDAISM AND
   

1. The Duties of the Shoshbin
   
2. Duties of the Shoshbin
   
3. THE ORIGINS OF BAR/BAT MITZVAH
   
4. Women and Time-Bound Positive Commandments
   
5. A Talmudic View on Lesbian Behavior
   
6. THE TALMUD ON Men Wearing Women's Garments
   
7. PERMITTED SEXUAL PRACTICES AND POSITIONS IN THE TALMUD
   
8. Conjugal Responsibilities of Scholars
   
9. TALMUD: Ketubot 61a-62b
   
10. Ketubot 62b
    
11. Yalta, the Wife of the Exilarch's Son-in-Law
    
12. Women, Serpents, Lust, and Sinai
    
13. Staying Away From Your Wife During the Suspect Days After Her Period
    
14. Female Inlaws and the Talmud
    
15. Not Forcing Women, the Punishment of Eve, and Learning From Animals
    
16. Husbands, Wives, and Vows
    
17. Intermarriage, Talmudic Style
    
18. The Effects of a Pregnant Woman's Diet and Actions on Her Baby
    
19. Sins for Which a Wife is Divorced AND Loses Her Ketubah Price
    
20. Positive and Harmful Effects of Sexual Intercourse
    
21. Matriarch Barreness, Impotency, and the Ten-Year Divorce Rule
    
22. Captive-Redemption and Women Talking in Bathrooms
    
23. Wasted Seed
    
24. What's Exciting About a Woman?
    
25. A Father's Responsibilities For His Son
    
26. Rabbi's Maid
    
27. Biology is Destiny?
    
28. Some Rigid Rules About Touching
    
29. Sleeping with a Gentile
    
30. The Definition and Problem of the Mamzer
    
31. Some Rabbinic Sex Education Texts
    
32. The Definition of "Pilegesh," Concubine
    
33. Rules Concerning Menstruation
    
34. Female Contraception
    
35. The Female Captive and Contraception
    
36. Betrothal and Sexual Harassment
    
37. The Meaning of "Be Fruitful and Multiply"
    
38. Be Fruitful: Whose Mitzvah
    
39. The Mysterious Kumaz
    
40. Marriage Blessings
    
41. Mothers-in-law Redux
    
42. Virginity Part I
    
43. Virginity Part II
    
44. When a Widow Isn't
    
45. Identifying a Corpse
    
46. Woman's Work Part II
    
47. The Rebellious Wife
    
48. What's a Useless Prayer?
    
49. At What Point is a Bride Acquired?
    
50. Acquiring a Wife
    
51. Marriage and Israel
    
52. Fantasies about Others
    
53. The Definition of Seclusion
    
54. The Good Old Days and No More Song
    
55. Kordiakos and Get-Giving
    
56. Listening to Reports About People
    
57. Grounds For Divorce
    
58. Speak For Thyself, John
    
59. On Jobs and Marital Status
    
60. Women's Defects: Forget the Silicone
    
61. RaMBaN on Menstruation
    

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2. STUDYING MERKAVAH KABBALAH
   
3. TALMUD ON The Dangers of the Kabbalah Experience
   
4. AMULETS
   
5. WHAT DO THE DEAD KNOW?
   
6. Shabbat 151b-153a: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE AND SOME RELATED STORIES
   
7. Secrets of the Temple
   
8. Forbidden Amorite Practices
   
9. How Many Righteous People Per Generation?
   
10. The Evil Inclination
    
11. Demons and Evil Spirits in the Talmud
    
12. The Cosmology and Heavenly Functions of Ministering Angels
    
13. Angels Petitioning and Arguing With God
    
14. Angels Relating With Humans
    
15. Talmud on Named Angels
    
16. The Talmud on the Angel of Death
    
17. The Torah Was Not Given To The Ministering Angels
    
18. The Importance of Dreams
    
19. A Wicked Dream Interpreter
    
20. The Evil Eye
    
21. Creative Children and the Alphabet
    
22. The Land of Israel and Resurrection of the Dead
    
23. Torah Texts Hinting at Resurrection of the Dead
    
24. Day of Judgement, Part I
    
25. Heichalot Part I: The Seven Palaces of Heaven
    
26. What Has to Happen for the Messiah to Come?
    
27. Sorcerers, Illusionists and Magic
    
28. Bezalel and God's Choosing Process
    
29. Capturing the Evil Inclination
    
30. The Jewish Y2K
    
31. Astrology: Two Positions
    
32. Names of God
    
33. The Leviathan and Behemot
    
34. The First Golem
    
35. Snow
    
36. Rabbinic Home Cures Part I
    
37. More Rabbinic Home Cures
    
38. Specific Punishments for Specific Wicked Folks
    
39. Different Attributes for Different Places and Groups
    
40. Resurrection Part I
    

1. Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
   

1. The Traditional List of Avinu Malkaynu
   
2. Joshua Chapter 24
   
3. Malachi Chapter 3
   
4. Torah Texts About Manna
   

1. Our Sages and the Bat Kol, Part I
   
2. Yochanan Ben Zakkai Sets up Yavneh
   
3. The Nature and Authority of the Bat Kol
   
4. CONFLICT BETWEEN RABBIS
   
5. OUR SAGES VERSUS RABBI ELIEZER....AND GOD: The Majority Rules!!!
   
6. RABBI ELIEZER UNDER THE BAN
   
7. UNDER THE BAN
   
8. Excommunication and the Objectionable Scholar
   
9. Talmudic Selections of Sages being Reproved
   
10. NON RABBIS UNDER THE BAN
    
11. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN BEIT HILLEL AND BEIT SHAMMAI, PART I
    
12. The Conflict Between Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel, Part II
    
13. When Sages Disagree
    
14. Sages in Disagreement
    
15. A Rabbi Who Could Laugh at Himself
    
16. Hananiah Challenges the Authorities in Palestine
    
17. The Samaritans
    
18. The Infamous Mumar
    
19. Who Were the Pharisees?
    
20. When May Disciples Make Legal Decisions
    
21. The Effects of Anger and Boastfulness
    
22. The Failed Revolt of R. Meir and R. Nathan
    
23. Rabbi Yochanan and Resh Lakish
    
24. The Death of R. Eliezer and Some Magic With Cucumbers
    
25. Two Stories of Bulimic Rabbis
    
26. Sometimes Even Rabbis Say Stupid Things
    
27. Sages Who Brought Rain Part I
    
28. Rabbis Who Prayed For Rain
    
29. Rabbis Who Provided Rain
    
30. Some Rabbis Can Bring Rain; Others Can't
    
31. Semichah: Rabbinic Ordination
    
32. The Death of Rabbi
    
33. Rabbi Power
    
34. The Case of Geniba
    
35. Hillel and the Prosbul
    
36. Description of Some Rabbis
    
37. Eating Habits of Sages
    
38. Don't Mess With Rav
    
39. Sages and Marrying Young
    
40. Showing Honor to Sages
    
41. Speak For Thyself, John
    

1. Some Talmud on Fringes
   
2. Some Talmud about Tefillin
   
3. THE TALMUD ON the Mezuzah
   
4. Regulations and Stories About Circumcision
   
5. A Complicated Proof that Circumcision Supercedes Shabbat
   
6. The High Priest's Gold Plate
   
7. The Only Reference in the Talmud to the Magen David
   
8. Some Talmud on Blessings
   
9. Rabbinic Eating Positions and Customs
   
10. Birkat HaMazon
    
11. Regulations about Private Fasts
    
12. Why We Say a Blessing
    
13. The Morning Blessings
    
14. When Priests Raised Their Hands in Blessing
    
15. Biblical and Talmudic Names for God
    
16. Payot in the Talmud
    
17. Bread Etiquette
    
18. Clothing: The Classic Text
    
19. Clothing in Talmud: The Sudar
    
20. Clothing in the Talmud: The Punda
    
21. The Chaluk
    
22. Theater and Circus Attendance
    
23. RaBaM's Thirteen Statements of Faith
    
24. An Outline of the Offerings
    
25. The Three Biblical Passages Which Comprise the Shma
    
26. Some Rules Concerning the Priestly Blessing
    
27. RITUAL IMPURITIES
    

1. Don't Personally Judge Your Neighbor
   
2. TALMUD ON Tzedakah Institutuions
   
3. 'Tzedakah Delivers From Death'
   
4. The Talmud on Special Tzedakah Giving
   
5. Talmud on Gemilut Chasadim
   
6. The Talmud on Accompanying the Dead
   
7. COMFORTING THE BEREAVED
   
8. Mourning Part I:
   
9. Mourning Part II:
   
10. RABBINIC SELECTIONS ON Hospitality
    
11. L'viyat Kallah
    
12. Visiting the Sick Removes One-Sixtieth of the Illness
    
13. TALMUD SELECTIONS ON Bikkur Cholim, Visiting the Sick
    
14. Women and Barleycorns
    
15. The Heavenly Court and Judgment
    
16. Why Gamblers May Not Be Witnesses
    
17. The Stubborn and Defiant Son
    
18. A Mnemonic on Suffering as Punishment
    
19. Why Is There Suffering: Part I
    
20. Why Do We Suffer: Part II
    
21. Why Is There Suffering Part III
    
22. Why Do We Suffer: Part IV
    
23. Why Is There Suffering: Part V
    
24. Why Is There Suffering: Part VI
    
25. Sage Advice in the Talmud
    
26. The Mitzvah of Honoring Parents
    
27. The Mitzvah of Honoring Teachers
    
28. Refined Speech
    
29. Hillel, Eleazar, and Joseph as Role Models
    
30. Vengeance and Bearing a Grudge
    
31. How Do You Bless Someone Who Has Everything?
    
32. Against Extreme Asceticism
    
33. What's Derech Eretz?
    
34. Derech Eretz Rabbah
    
35. Bathroom Etiquette
    
36. Derech Eretz Rabbah
    
37. Derech Eretz Rabbah
    
38. Bal Tashchit
    
39. The Insidious Nature of Bribes and Gifts
    
40. Laundry and Water Use
    
41. Rebuking Your Neighbor
    
42. What's an Am Ha-Aretz?
    
43. Gibeonites, the Netinim Part I
    
44. The Gibeonites Part II
    
45. Sin or Die?
    
46. The Town of Kefar Sekania
    
47. Some Laws about Slavery
    
48. The Cost of Freeing a Slave
    
49. Freeing a Slave Through Damage
    
50. Why Should He Lie?
    
51. More on the Mamzer
    

1. SEVEN Books of the Torah???
   
2. THE JEWISH CALENDAR
   
3. The Medicinal Properties of Torah Study
   
4. SOME TALMUD ON
   
5. TALMUD ON
   
6. QUEEN HELENA
   
7. SHABBAT 147b: The Consquences of Over- Indulging in Some Physical Pleasures
   
8. Play in the Talmud
   
9. Ways to Study the Oral Law
   
10. An Interpretation of the Book of Job
    
11. Talmudic Commentary to Exodus Chapter I
    
12. The Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs Controversy
    
13. The Number of Mitzvot
    
14. The Number of Commandments
    
15. The Ark and a Nice Sermon
    
16. The Recipe for Anointing Oil and Incense
    
17. A Really Big Synagogue and its Design Implications
    
18. Torah Proof Text for Ritual Slaughter
    
19. Fixed Elements of the Torah Scroll
    
20. Stopping Someone From Committing a Crime
    
21. The Trial of Jesus and His Followers
    
22. Four Modes of Execution
    
23. Capital Punishment II
    
24. Onkelos
    
25. What's a Graveyard?
    
26. Weights and Money
    
27. Child-Raising Plus
    
28. Two Rules of Evidence
    
29. The Last Eight Verses of the Torah
    
30. Teaching Torah for Money?
    
31. Torah For Its Own Sake
    
32. Orlah and Kil'ayim Outside the Land of Israel
    
33. Observing Versus Studying Torah
    
34. Multi-Person Crashes
    
35. The Influence of Bribery on Judges
    
36. Nehonia the Well-Digger
    
37. Liability Differences Between God and Man
    
38. Cats
    
39. Dogs
    
40. Robbery
    
41. Seas and Rivers in the Land of Israel
    
42. Sepphoris in the Talmud
    
43. Rabbinic References to the City of Akko
    
44. The Ten Edicts of Ezra
    
45. Jerusalem and Swine/Greek Rules
    
46. THE DEATH OF KING DAVID
    
47. Torah STUDY: Standing or Sitting?
    

1. Preparing the Dead
   
2. BIKKUR CHOLIM
   
3. HACHNASAT ORCHIM
   
4. TZA'AR BA'ALEI CHAYIM
   

1. The Ashrei: Psalm 145
   
2. The Content of the Blessings Surrounding the Shma
   
3. The Contents of the Tefillah
   
4. Choreography of the Service: The Sacred Dance
   
5. Regulations About Reciting the Shma
   
6. A Short Piece on Synagogue Etiquette
   
7. The Sanctity of the Synaogue and Its Ritual Objects
   
8. The Priestly Benediction
   
9. The Good Old Days: No More Song, No More Garlands
   
10. Pidyon HaBen
    

1. Tefillin
   
2. The Four Torah Passages about Tefillin
   
3. A DAILY MITZVAH:
   
4. LIFE IS A BLESSING
   
5. Birkat HaMazon
   
6. RaMBaN on Mishpatim
   
7. HAND-WASHING
   
8. The Magen David
   
9. PRIEST SUBSTITUTES
   
10. TABLE AS MINI-ALTAR PART II
    
11. PRIEST SUBSTITUTIONS
    
12. MORE EATING RULES
    
13. Biblical and Early Rabbinic Fasting
    
14. The Mitzvah of the Mezuzah
    
15. RITUAL PURITY
    
16. The Torah on Bodily Discharges
    

1. TZEDAKAH
   
2. GEMILUT CHASADIM
   
3. A Tzedakah/Thanksgiving Story
   
4. RaMBaM's Eight Rungs of Tzedakah
   
5. Honoring Parents
   

1. PRAYER,
   
2. The Shma and Its Blessings
   
3. The Ritual of the Priestly Blessing
   
4. RaMBaN on the Etrog and Lulav
   

1. TALMUD SELECTIONS ABOUT
   
2. HILLEL
   

1. Midrash about Pregnancy, Birth, and Circumcision
   
2. Some Midrash on Heaven (GAN EDEN, OLAM HABA) and Hell (GEHENNA)
   
3. Midrash about Marriage
   
4. An Aggadah about TZITZIT
   
5. Breisheet I: Creation
   
6. Breisheet II: Adam, Eve, and the Serpent
   
7. Breisheet III: Lillit
   
8. Breisheet III: Cain and Abel
   
9. Breisheet V: The Generation Resulting in the Flood
   
10. Noach I: Noah
    
11. From Adam to Noach: What's the Correct Diet?
    
12. Noach II: Nimrod and the Tower of Babel
    
13. Noach III: Avram as a Child
    
14. Noach V: Were Noah's Children Commanded to be Circumcised?
    
15. Avram in the Land of Canaan and Down in Egypt
    
16. Sarai and Hagar
    
17. Midrash on Vayayra
    
18. Midrash on Keturah
    
19. Chayay Sarah
    
20. Toldot
    
21. VaYaytzay
    
22. VaYishlach
    
23. VaYayshev
    
24. MiKaytz
    
25. VaYigash
    
26. VaYechi
    
27. Shemot I: The Enslavement
    
28. Shemot II: The Birth and Childhood of Moses
    
29. Shemot III: The Call
    
30. Shemot IV: Moses Returns to Egypt
    
31. VaAyra
    
32. Midrash For Bo
    
33. BeShallach
    
34. Yitro
    
35. Midrash for the Torah Portion Mishpatim
    
36. Midrash on Mishpatim
    
37. Midrash on Terumah
    
38. Terumah II
    
39. Midrash for Tetzaveh
    
40. Tetzaveh II
    
41. Ki Tissa
    
42. Ki Tissa: The Lineage of Bezalel
    
43. Ki Tissa: Why Only the Bible Was Written at Sinai
    
44. Ki Tissah: The Golden Calf Debacle
    
45. Ki Tissa: Moses Comes Down
    
46. Ki Tissa: Moses Breaks the Tablets
    
47. Ki Tissa: Why Moses Remained Celibate
    
48. VaYakhel/Pekudei
    
49. Vayakhel-Pikkuday
    
50. Vayikra
    
51. Midrash on VaYikra
    
52. Midrash for the Torah Portion Tzav
    
53. Midrash for the Torah Portion Shemini
    
54. Shemini
    
55. Tazria-Metzora
    
56. Tazria-Metzora
    
57. Midrash for the Torah Portions Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
    
58. Midrash on Emor
    
59. Midrash for Behar-Bechukotai
    
60. Midrash for the Torah Portion BaMidbar
    
61. Midrash for the Torah Portion Naso
    
62. midrash for the Torah Portion Behaalotcha
    
63. midrash for the Torah Portion Shelach Lecha
    
64. Midrash for the Torah Portion Korach
    
65. Midrash for the Torah Portion Chukat
    
66. Midrash for the Torah Portion Balak
    
67. Midrash for the Torah Portion Pinchas
    
68. Midrash for the Torah Portions Matot-Massei
    
69. Midrash for Devarim
    
70. Midrash to Vaetchenan
    
71. Midrash for Ekev
    
72. Midrash on Re'eh
    
73. Midrash Related to Shoftim
    
74. Ki Taytzay
    
75. Midrash for Ki Tavo
    
76. Midrash on Nitzavim
    
77. Torah on Ishmael/Hagar and the Akeida
    
78. VaYaylech
    
79. Haazinu
    
80. V'Zot HaBrachah
    

1. Rashi, RaMBaN and Mechilta on Bo
   
2. Rashi and RaMBaN on BeShallach
   
3. Rashi and RaMBaN on Yitro
   
4. Rashi and RaMBaN on Mishpatim
   
5. Rashi and RaMBaN on Terumah
   
6. Rashi and RaMBaN on Tetzaveh
   
7. Rashi and RaMBaN on Ki Tissa
   
8. RaMBaN on Vayakhel-Pikkuday
   
9. RaMBaN on Yayikra
   
10. RaMBaN on Tzav
    
11. RaMBaN on Ekev
    
12. RaMBaM on Re'eh
    
13. RaMBaN on Shoftim
    
14. RaMBaN on Ki Taytzay
    
15. RaMBaN on Ki Tavo
    
16. RaMBaN on Nitzavim
    
17. RaMBaN on Ishmael/Hagar and the Akeida
    
18. Rashi and RaMBaN on Noach
    
19. RaMBaN on Lech L'cha
    
20. RaMBaN on VaYaylech
    
21. RaMBaN on Chayay Sarah
    
22. RaMBaN on Toldot
    
23. RaMBaN on VaYaytzay
    
24. RaMBaN on VaYishlach
    
25. RaMBaN on VaYayshev
    
26. RaMBaN on VaYigash
    
27. RaMBaN on VaY'chi
    
28. RaMBaN on VaAyra
    
29. RaMBaN on Bo
    
30. RaMBaN on Yitro
    
31. Rashi and RaMBaN on Tetzaveh
    
32. RaMBaN on Ki Tisa
    
33. RaMBaN on God's Attributes
    
34. RaMBaN on Vayakhel
    
35. RaMBaN on Pekuday
    
36. RaMBaN on Vayikra
    
37. RaMBaN on Shemot
    
38. RaMBaN on Tazria
    
39. RaMBaN on Metzora
    
40. RaMBaN on Menstruation
    
41. RaMBaN on Acharei Mot
    
42. RAMBaN on Kedoshim
    
43. RaMBaN on Emor
    
44. RaMBaN on Behar
    
45. RaMBaN on Bechukotai
    
46. RaMBaN on BeMidbar
    
47. Summary of Naso
    
48. RaMBaN on Beha'alotcha
    
49. RamBaN on Shelach Lecha
    
50. RaMBaN on Korach
    
51. RamBaN on Chukat-Balak
    
52. RaMBaN on Pinchas
    
53. RaMBaN on Matot-Massei
    
54. RaMBaN on Devarim
    
55. RaMBaN on Vaetchanan
    
56. RaMBaN on Ekev
    
57. RaMBaN on Re'eh
    
58. RaMBaN on Shoftim
    
59. RaMBaN on Ki Taytzay
    
60. RaMBaN on Ki Tavo
    
61. RaMBaN on Nitzavim
    
62. RaMBaN on Yom Kippur Morning's Torah Portion
    
63. RaMBaN on V'Zot HaBrachah
    
64. Me'am Lo'ez on Breisheet Part I
    
65. Me'am Lo'ez on Breisheet Part II
    
66. Me'am Loez on Breisheet Part IV: Niddah
    
67. Me'am Lo'ez on Breisheet Part III
    
68. Me'am Lo'ez on Breisheet Part V
    
69. Me'am Lo'ez on Breisheet Part VI:
    
70. Me'am Lo'ez on Breisheet Part VII: Washing
    
71. Me'am Lo'ez on Breisheet Part VIII: The Generations
    
72. Me'am Loez on Breishit: Astrology and Astronomy
    
73. Some Chassidic Stories Related to Noach
    
74. Me'am Lo'ez on Noach: The Flood
    
75. Me'am Loez on Lech Lecha
    
76. Me'am Loez on Lech Lecha: Battling Four Kings
    
77. Me'am Loez on Lech Lecha: The Vision
    
78. Me'am Loez on Lech Lecha: Avram and Circumcision
    
79. Me'am Loez on Lech Lecha: Circumcision
    
80. RaMBaN on Lech Lecha
    
81. Some Chassidic Stories Relating to Lech Lecha
    
82. Me'am Loez on VaYayra: Bikkur Cholim
    
83. Me'am Loez on Vayayra: Minyan, Kaddish and Amen
    
84. Me'am Loez on VaYayra: Hospitality
    
85. Me'am Loez on VaYayra: Birth of Isaac
    
86. Me'am Loez on VaYayra: Abraham's Ten Tests
    
87. Me'am Loez on VaYayra: The Akeida
    
88. Me'am Loez: An Analysis of the Akeida
    
89. RaMBaN on VaYayra
    
90. Some Chassidic Tales Relating to Vayayra
    
91. Sarah Dies and We Mourn Saints
    
92. Abraham Purchases the Cave and Funeral Attendance
    
93. Getting Isaac a Wife: The Mission
    
94. Eliezer Meets Rebecca
    
95. Me'am Loez on VaYaytzay: The Marriage Switch
    
96. The Departure
    
97. Isaac Meets Rebecca
    
98. Lavan and Betuel
    
99. Me'am Loez on Chayay Sarah: Abraham's Death
    
100. RaMBaN on Chayay Sarah
     
101. Me'am Loez on Toldot: Isaac and Jacob
     
102. RaMBaN on Toldot
     
103. Me'am Loez on Toldot Part II
     
104. Isaac Sends Esau on His Mission
     
105. Rebecca Sends Jacob on His Mission
     
106. Isaac and Esau
     
107. Me'am Loez on Toldot: Answering the Tough Questions
     
108. Me'am Loez on VaYaytzay
     
109. Me'am Loez on VaYaytzay: Jacob and Laban's Work Agreement
     
110. Me'am Loez on VaYaytzay: The Marriage Switch
     
111. Me'am Loez on VaYaytzay: The Birth of Twelve Sons
     
112. Me'am Loez on VaYishlach
     
113. Me'am Loez on VaYishlach Part II
     
114. Jacob Arrives in Shechem
     
115. Dinah
     
116. Jacob Goes to Beth-el
     
117. Rachel Dies
     
118. Reuven's Sin
     
119. Esau's Line
     
120. Me'am Loez on VaYishlach: The Battles of Jacob's Sons
     
121. Me'am Loez on VaYayshev: Joseph and His Brothers
     
122. Me'am Loez on VaYayshev: Joseph is Sold
     
123. Me'am Loez on VaYayshev: Er and Onan
     
124. Me'am Loez on VaYayshev
     
125. Joseph and Potiphar
     
126. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
     
127. Joseph in Prison
     
128. Me'am Loez on VaYayshev: The Cup Bearer, the Baker, and Dream Interpretation
     
129. Me'am Loez on Mikaytz
     
130. Me'am Loez on Mikaytz: Joseph and His Brothers
     
131. Me'am Loez on Mikaytz
     
132. Me'am Loez on VaYigash
     
133. Me'am Loez on Mikaytz: Benjamin Framed
     
134. Jacob Goes Down to Egypt
     
135. Me'am Loez on VaYigash:Jacob Meets Pharaoh
     
136. Me'am Loez on VaYechi
     
137. The Famine
     
138. Me'am Loez on VaYechi: Jacob's Blessing
     
139. Me'am Loez on VaYechi: Jacob Dies
     
140. Me'am Loez on Shemot:
     
141. Me'am Loez on Shemot: The Midwives
     
142. Me'am Loez on Shemot: Drowning Hebrew Babies
     
143. Me'am Loez on Shemot; Moses Grows
     
144. Me'am Loez on Shemot: Midian and the Burning Bush
     
145. Me'am Loez on Shemot: God's Plan
     
146. Me'am Loez on Shemot: Moses Returns to Egypt
     
147. Me'am Loez on Shemot: Why the Enslavement
     
148. Me'am Loez on VaEra: The Plan
     
149. Me'am Loez on VaEra: First Plague
     
150. Me'am Loez on VaEra: Frogs
     
151. Me'am Loez on VaEra: Lice and Wild Beasts
     
152. Me'am Loez on VaAyra: Animal Disease, Boils, Hail
     
153. Me'am Loez on Bo: Locusts
     
154. Me'am Loez on Bo: Darkness
     
155. Me'am Loez on Bo: Death of the First Born I
     
156. Me'am Loez on Bo: Death of the First Born II
     
157. Me'am Loez on Bo: First Pesach Preparation
     
158. Me'am Loez on Bo: Doorpost Preparation
     
159. Me'am Loez on Bo: Death of the First Born III
     
160. Me'am Loez on Bo: Free!
     
161. Me'am Loez on Beshallach I: Flight and Pursuit
     
162. Me'am Loez on Beshallach II: Confrontation at the Sea
     
163. Me'am Loez on Beshallach III: Sea-Splitting
     
164. Me'am Loez on Beshallach IV: Fifty Miracles
     
165. Me'am Loez on Beshallach V: Miriam and Redemption
     
166. Me'am Loez on Beshallach VI: Bitter Water
     
167. Me'am Loez on Beshallach VII: Manna and Shabbat
     
168. Me'am Loez on Beshallach VII: More Manna
     
169. Me'am Loez on Beshallach VIII: Amalek!
     
170. Me'am Loez on Yitro Part I: Jethro
     
171. Me'am Loez on Yitro II: Organizing Judges
     
172. Me'am Loez on Yitro III: At Sinai
     
173. Me'am Loez on Yitro IV: Revelation
     
174. Me'am Loez on Yitro VII: Moses and the Angels
     
175. Me'am Loez on Yitro V: The Order of the The Commandments
     
176. Me'am Loez on Yitro VI: Israel's Benefit
     
177. Me'am Loez on Yitro: Forty Miracles
     
178. Me'am Loez on Yitro: Revelation and Philosophy
     
179. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: The Death Penalty
     
180. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Flogging
     
181. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Karet
     
182. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Excommunication
     
183. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Slavery, Male and Female
     
184. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Bodily Damages
     
185. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Stealing
     
186. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: General Damages I
     
187. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Indirect Damages
     
188. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: Informers and Negligence
     
189. Me'am Loez on Mishpatim: The Five Categories of Damages
     
190. Me'am Loez on Terumah: The Nature of Donations
     
191. Me'am Loez on Terumah: The Materials
     
192. Me'am Loez on Terumah: The Ark
     
193. Me'am Loez on Terumah: The Table
     
194. Me'am Loez on Terumah: The Menorah (Lampstand)
     
195. Me'am Loez on Terumah: The Tabernacle
     
196. Me'am Loez on Tetzaveh: The Oil
     
197. Me'am Loez on Tetzaveh: The Priesthood
     
198. Me'am Loez on Tetzaveh: The Breastplate
     
199. Me'am Loez on Tetzaveh: The Banners
     
200. Me'am Loez on Tetzaveh: The Ephod and Urim and Tumim
     
201. Me'am Loez on Tetzaveh: The Me'il and Tephillin
     
202. Me'am Loez on Tetzaveh: The Purpose for the Vestments
     
203. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: The Census and the Half Shekel
     
204. Me'am Leez on Ki Tissa: The Laver and the Anointing Oil
     
205. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: More on the Anointing Oil
     
206. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: The Incense Spices
     
207. Me'am Leez on Ki Tissa: Bezalel and Oholiav
     
208. Me'am Leez on Ki Tissa: The Stone Tablets
     
209. Me'am Leez on Ki Tissa: The Golden Calf
     
210. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: Moses Pleads the First Time
     
211. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: Moses Smashes the Tablets
     
212. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: Moses Pleads the Second Time
     
213. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: The Thirteen Attributes of God
     
214. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: Anti-Idolatry
     
215. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: The Oral Law
     
216. Me'am Loez on Ki Tissa: Moses Radiating
     
217. Me'am Loez on VaYakhel: Shabbat
     
218. Me'am Loez on VaYakhel: Women Spinning
     
219. Me'am Loez on VaYakhel: Mirrors
     
220. Me'am Loez on Pekuday: The Tabernacle of Testimony
     
221. Me'am Loez on Pekuday: The Synagogue
     
222. Me'am Loez on Pekuday: The Miracle of the Tabernacle
     
223. Me'am Loez on Vayikra: Sacrifices
     
224. Me'am Loez on Vayikra: God Calls Moses
     
225. Me'am Loez on VaYikra: Some Sacrifice Rules
     
226. Me'am Loez on Tzav: Blood and its Rules
     
227. Me'am Loez on Tzav: Non-Kosher Food and Gentiles
     
228. Me'am Loez on Tzav: Some More Sacrifice Rules
     
229. Me'am Loez on Shemini: On Drunkeness
     
230. Me'am Loez on Shemini: Nadav and Avihu
     
231. Me'am Loez on Shemini: Mourning and Acceptance of Loss
     
232. Me'am Loez on Shemini: Uzziel
     
233. Me'am Loez on Shemini: Some Dietary Rules
     
234. Me'am Loez on Tazria-Metzora
     
235. Me'am Loez on Tazria-Metzora: Skin Afflictions
     
236. Me'am Loez on Tazria-Metzora: Causes of Skin Afflictions
     
237. Me'am Loez on Tazria-Metzora: House Afflictions
     
238. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Nadav and Avihu Redux
     
239. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: The High Priest Alone
     
240. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Azazel
     
241. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Gentile Practices and Kiddush HaShem
     
242. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Kedoshim and The Ten Commandments
     
243. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Respecting Parents
     
244. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Idols
     
245. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Cursing the Deaf
     
246. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Perverting Justice
     
247. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Gossip and Correcting Your Neighbor
     
248. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Revenge and Keeping a Grudge
     
249. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Sha'atnez
     
250. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Trees and Orlah
     
251. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Divination
     
252. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Corners of Beard
     
253. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Various Prohibitions
     
254. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Peah and Leket
     
255. Me'am Loez on Acharay Mot-Kedoshim: Respect
     
256. Me'am Loez on Emor: On Priests
     
257. Me'am on Emor: Chol HaMoed
     
258. Me'am Loez on Emor: On the Omer
     
259. Me'am Loez on Emor: The Shofar
     
260. Me'am Loez on Emor: Yom Kippur
     
261. Me'am Loez on Emor: The Sukkah
     
262. Me'am Loez on Behar-Bechukotai: The Sabbatical Year (Shemita)
     
263. Me'am Loez on Behar-Bechukotai: The Jubilee Year (Yovel)
     
264. Me'am Loez on Behar-Bechukotai: On Cheating
     
265. Me'am Loez on Behar-Bechukotai: On Taking Interest
     
266. Me'am Loez on Behar-Bechukotai: The Blessings
     
267. Me'am Loez on Behar-Bechukotai: The Blessings and the Curses
     
268. Me'am Loez on Bemidbar: Counting
     
269. Me'am Loez on Bemidbar: The Order of the Camp
     
270. Me'am Loez on Bemidbar: The Flags
     
271. Me'am Loez on Bemidbar: Levite Census
     
272. Me'am Loez on Bemidbar: Redeeming the First Born
     
273. Me'am Loez on Bemidbar: Paupers and Piety
     
274. Me'am Loez on Naso: Confession and Atonement
     
275. Me'am Loez on Naso: The Nazirite
     
276. Me'am Loez on Naso: The Priestly Blessing
     
277. Me'am Loez on Naso: Judah's Offering
     
278. Me'am Loez on Naso: Attributes of a Chazzan
     
279. Me'am Loez on Naso: Issachar's Offering
     
280. Me'am Loez on Naso: Zevulun's Offering
     
281. Me'am Loez on Naso: Reuven's Offering
     
282. Me'am Loez on Naso: Simeon's Offering
     
283. Me'am Loez on Naso: Gad's Offering
     
284. Me'am Loez on Naso: Ephraim's Offering
     
285. Me'am Loez on Naso: Menasheh's Offering
     
286. Me'am Loez on Naso: Benjamin's Offering
     
287. Me'am Loez on Naso: Dan's Offering
     
288. Me'am Loez on Naso: Naphtali's Offering
     
289. Me'am Loez on Naso: Naphtali's Offering
     
290. Me'am Loez on Naso: A Summary of all the Offerings
     
291. Me'am Loez on Be'ha'alotcha: Aaron and the Menorah
     
292. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Chanukah
     
293. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Judith
     
294. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Laws of Chanukah
     
295. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Lighting the Menorah
     
296. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Chovav/Jethro
     
297. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: The Miracle of Journeying
     
298. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Crisis Number One: Tav'erah
     
299. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Crisis Number Two: Craving Meat
     
300. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Elders; Eldad and Medad; and Quail
     
301. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Miriam and Aaron's Complaint
     
302. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: The Uniqueness of Moses as Prophet
     
303. Me'am Loez on Beha'alotcha: Miriam's Punishment
     
304. Me'am Loez on Shelach: The Origin of the Scouts
     
305. Me'am Loez on Shelach: Scouting the Land
     
306. Me'am Loez on Shelach: The Scouts' Report
     
307. Me'am Loez on Shelach: The People's Sin and Punishment
     
308. Me'am Loez on Shelach: The Gatherer of Sticks on Shabbat
     
309. Me'am Loez on Shelach: The Commandment of Tzitzit
     
310. Me'am Loez on Shelach Lecha: Laws Concerning Tzitzit
     
311. Me'am Loez on Korach: The Nature of the Rebellion
     
312. Me'am Loez on Korach: Moses' Response
     
313. Me'am Loez on Korach: The End of Korach's Revolt
     
314. Me'am Loez on Korach: The Plague
     
315. Me'am Loez on Korach: Aaron Saves the Day
     
316. Me'am Loez on Chukat: The Red Heifer
     
317. Me'am Loez on Chukat: Getting Water at Merribah
     
318. Me'am Loez on Chukat: Moses' Sin
     
319. Me'am Loez on Chukat: Aaron's Death
     
320. Me'am Loez on Chukat: The King of Arad
     
321. Me'am Loez on Chukat: Snakes!
     
322. Me'am Loez on Chukat: Singing to the Well
     
323. Me'am Loez on Chukat: Sichon
     
324. Me'am Loez on Chukat: Og
     
325. Me'am Loez on Balak: Balak Decides to Hire Bil'am
     
326. Me'am Loez on Balak: Bal'am Accepts
     
327. Me'am Loez on Balak: Balaam and the Ass
     
328. Me'am Loez on Balak: Try Number One to Curse Israel
     
329. Me'am Loez on Balak: Try Number Two
     
330. Me'am Loez on Balak: Try Number Three
     
331. Me'am Loez on Balak: The Debacle at Shittim
     
332. Me'am Loez on Pinchas: Pinchas
     
333. Me'am Loez on Pinchas: The Second Census
     
334. Me'am Loez on Pinchas: Dividing Up the Land
     
335. Me'am Loez on Pinchas: Tzelofechad's Daughters and Inheritance
     
336. Me'am Loez on Pinchas: The Daily Sacrifices
     
337. Me'am Loez on Pinchas: Moses and Joshua
     
338. Me'am Loez on Matot: Vows
     
339. Me'am Loez on Matot: Women and Vows
     
340. Me'am Loez on Matot: Revenge Against the Midianites
     
341. Me'am Loez on Matot: Reuben and Gad
     
342. Me'am Loez on Matot: For the Sake of Appearance
     
343. Me'am Loez on Massay: Israel's Journeys
     
344. Me'am Loez on Massay: God's Five Objectives
     
345. Mea'm Loez on Massay: Levitical Cities
     
346. Me'am Loez on Massay: Cities of Refuge
     
347. Me'am Loez on Massay: Daughters of Tzelofechad Redux
     
348. Me'am Loez on Massay: The Fifteenth of Av
     
349. Me'am Loez on Massay: End of the Book of Numbers
     
350. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Introduction
     
351. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moses Admonishes, Part I
     
352. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moses Admonishes, Part II
     
353. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moses Admonishes, Part III
     
354. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moses Explains Torah
     
355. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moses Overwhelmed
     
356. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moses Selects Judges
     
357. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Judges, Part I
     
358. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Monetary and Capital Cases
     
359. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Judges, Part II
     
360. Me'am Loez on Devarim: The Spies Redux
     
361. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moses' Response to Spies
     
362. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Moabites and Ammonites
     
363. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Sichon Redux
     
364. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Gentile Food
     
365. Me'am Loez on Devarim: Og Redux
     
366. Me'am Loez on VaEtchanan: Moses Pleads Part I
     
367. Me'am Loez on VaEtchanan: Moses Pleads Part II
     
368. Why Moses Wanted to Enter the Holy Land
     
369. God's Response
     
370. The Holiness of the Holy Land
     
371. Teaching For Free
     
372. How Jews are Special
     
373. How to Study
     
374. Rules of Safety
     
375. The Lure of Idolatry
     
376. Sinning to Anger God
     
377. Heaven and Earth as Witnesses
     
378. The 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av
     
379. The Four Fasts
     
380. Rules of Av
     
381. Rules For Tisha B'Av
     
382. More Rules for Tisha B'Av and Fast Days
     
383. Me'am Loez on VaEtchanan: The Exile
     
384. Me'am Loez on VaEtchanan: The Shma Part I
     
385. Me'am Loez on VaEtchanan: The Shma, Part II
     
386. Doing the Commandments
     
387. Idolatry
     
388. The Nature of Suffering
     
389. The Seven Species and Hand-Washing
     
390. HaMotzi
     
391. Birkat HaMazon
     
392. Haughtiness
     
393. The Second Set of Tablets
     
394. The Order and Rules about Prayer
     
395. Tefillin Redux
     
396. Teaching Children
     
397. Mezuzah
     
398. Reward and Suffering
     
399. Me'am Loez on Reeh: Idolatry, God's Names, Offerings
     
400. Me'am Loez on Reeh: The Wanderings of the Tabernacle
     
401. Me'am Loez on Reeh: False Prophets
     
402. Ir HaNidachat
     
403. The Jewish Attitude Toward Death
     
404. Tithes
     
405. Me'am Loez on Re'eh: Helping the Poor
     
406. Judges and the Sanhedrins
     
407. Regulations for Judges
     
408. Judges and the Zaken Mamra
     
409. Rules about Kings
     
410. Levites, Levitical Priests, and Their Portions
     
411. Canaanite Practices
     
412. Soothsaying and Prophets
     
413. Cities of Refuge Redux
     
414. Single Witnesses and Edim Zommemim
     
415. Preparations for War
     
416. Me'am Loez on Shoftim: The Eglah Arufah
     
417. RaMBaN on Ki Taytzay: The Captive Woman
     
418. Me'am Loez on Ki Taytzay: Tza'ar Ba'alei Chayim
     
419. Having a Guardrail
     
420. Basic Laws of Marriage
     
421. Fair Treatment of Animals
     
422. Eating Your Neighbor's Fruit
     
423. Fathers and Sons
     
424. The Forgotten Sheaf
     
425. Me'am Loez on Ki Taytzay: Flogging Redux
     
426. Bikkurim
     
427. Tithes
     
428. The Torah on Plastered Stones
     
429. The Gerizim-Ebal Ceremony
     
430. Tochachah
     
431. The Curses and the Role of Happiness
     
432. Me'am Loez on Ki Tavo: The Tochachah Part III
     
433. Some Chassidic Stories Relating to Nitzavim
     
434. RaMBaN on V'Zot HaBrachah: Seeing God Face to Face
     
435. RaMBaN on V'Zot HaBrachah
     
436. RaMBaN on V'Zot HaBrachah: The Order of the Blessing
     
437. RaMBaN on V'Zot HaBrachah: Showing the Land
     
438. A Simple Ceremony for Putting Up a Mezuzah
     

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5. A Modern Midrash About Women and the Sacrificial Cult
   
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7. WHO STOLE THE INCENSE ALTAR?
   
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12. Who is the Mother of an Ovum Transplant?
    
13. AN ANALYSIS OF THE SCOUTS
    
14. Commentary on the Torah Portion Pinchas
    
15. Amalek, Purim, and Zachor, Remember
    
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