Last week we explained that according to Maimonides the origins of idol worshipping were related to a mistake in the identification of "God's agents"...

Rabbi Ben-Zion Cuenca was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1867.  His last name, Cuenca, corresponds to a city in Spain. His...

  פותח את ידך ומשביע לכל חי רצון Last week we explained that in order to get the most from reading Tehilim we need to...

Of its 613 Mitzvot (commandments) the Tora dedicates 51 to the banning of idol worshiping or 'aboda zara. In His book Mishne Tora Maimonides...

David haMelekh, the greatest King of Israel was also the greatest poet in the Jewish people. He composed the book of Tehilim (Psalms).  Tehilim...

Previously, we explained the debate between the rabbis on the mater of the definition of a public domain. If a public domain is an...

Previously, we have explained that for Jewish tradition the opening statement of the Ten Commandments "Im the Lord your God who brought you out of...

As we saw last week (see this) Rabbi "Don" Isaac Abarbanel was a famous statesman, a wealthy merchant, a Jewish philanthropist and one of the most...

Last week ( see this) we began to explore the complex question: "Why bad things happen to good people?" We explained that according to our...

"Blood libel also called blood accusations, the superstitious accusations that Jews ritually sacrifice Christian children at Passover to obtain blood for unleavened bread (...

Rabbi "Don" Isaac Abarbanel (or Abravanel) was born in Lisbon Portugal, in 1437. He was a famous statesman, a very wealthy merchant, a Jewish philanthropist ...

Rabbi Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508. Tomorrow BH we will have a special column about him) explained that the concept of berakha (=blessing) must be understood...

ועתה, אם-שמוע תשמעו בקולי, ושמרתם, את-בריתי--והייתם לי סגולה מכל-העמים, כי-לי כל-הארץ.  ואתם תהיו-לי ממלכת כוהנים, וגוי קדוש Today is the 1st day of the month...

We are reviewing the melakha called hotza-a,  "transferring" on Shabbat from one domain to another domain (see here) and as an extension of it...

We have seen last week (see here) that the Ten Commandments include two commandments that were conveyed directly by God, these are the First...

כי פריס סודרא על רישיה לימא עוטר ישראל בתפארה      "Blessed are You haShem Who crowns Israel with glory". This blessing was established by the...

In Hebrew, every letter has a numerical value according to the order in which that letter appears in the Hebrew alphabet.   ALEF is...

Many Jews (especially those living in Christian countries) probably believe that the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments looked as something similar to the McDonald's...

כשהוא חוגר את חגורו, הוא אומר: ברוך אוזר ישראל בגבורה. When describing the blessings to be said in the morning (birkot hashahar) the Talmud explains...