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So much of being a parent is trying to teach your children, time and time again, that there is nothing they might experience that they cannot bring to you.
We do it in small ways at the beginning: holding them as they cry over a fall and kissing their bruises, and watching with full attention as they point to their favorite picture in a book. Even our annoyance, eve...
“In the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was set up.” (Exodus 40:17)
In the biblical calendar, Nisan is the first month, making
Today we find ourselves in a talmudic discussion of items exempted from Jewish obligations because they are owned or used by non-Jews. For example: Produce becomes obligated in terumah (a tithe for priests) only once it’s been harvested, stacked and smoothed — meaning the stacked piles are evened out. The rabbis wonder: If a non-Jew smooths over a pile of produce and...
The omer, a meal offering that was presented in the Temple on the second day of Passover, permits the consumption of the new crop of barley and triggers the countdown to Shavuot. The counting is described in
Today’s daf is largely devoted to a sprawling interpretive battle between the rabbis and rival Jewish groups. The question is: When do we count the omer? Leviticus 23...