Many students of the Talmud never get that initial spark because the language barrier prevents them from ever experiencing the joy of exploring the text’s depth. I hope that this new English edition ...

Amalek rejects Hashem’s connection to this world or any connection between the spiritual and the physical. Essentially, Amalek denies Hashem’s control of this world and the ability for man to upli ...

[7] Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, known by his acronym “Rashi,” was the most eminent of the medieval commentators. He lived in northern France in the 11 th century. [8] Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra ...

Rashi, the most traditional of readers ... After all, God is only human. “Said Rabbi Hanina: All who are seduced by wine have a little bit of the divine in them, as it is said: And the Lord ...

Rashi suggests that it refers to a musical instrument ... Graduate of YU, taught for Rabbi Riskin in Riverdale, NY, and then for 18 years in Efrat with R. Riskin and R. Brovender at Yeshivat ...

Any combo works While only Nissan is explicitly identified as the month of Spring (Aviv), Rashi (Ta’anit 29a) correctly joins Adar and Nissan together as one extended time of miracles.

The question is when this occurred. Rashi in Pasuk יא tells us that this whole move from Moshe was only after Yom Kippur, as the 3 sets of 40 days with Moshe on Har Sinai only ended on Yom Kippur.

When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written ...

The answer is that even when Hashem hides His face, He is still there. A person wearing a mask is still the same person underneath. The story of Purim is all about hiding and revealing. It is about ...