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By the Numbers
14 Simple and Surprising Things Jews Do With Fire

Fire enhances life in a great many ways, while simultaneously being one of the most dangerous substances on earth.
Your Questions
Why Does a Husband Stay Home During the First Year?

“When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army…”
Does a Soul Choose Its Family?

Judaism teaches that G-d chooses who our parents are, where we are born, and when.
Voices
My Friend Sami Rohr, the Torah Scholar

Honoring a patron of Jewish life on his yahrzeit, 17 Menachem Av.
Freeman Files
Heels Over Head

Every mitzvah, even a simple rule that we would have figured out on our own, is part of a covenant and connection that entirely transcends our limited reality.
Quiz
Take the Hillel Quiz

What do you know about this great sage?
Parshah
Watch Out for That Last Thread

Anxious Parshah
Each part of a niggun (chassidic melody) should be sung twice; the first time traces a form, the second carves deep into the soul
— Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch (1860-1920)
Print Magazine

Take these words of Mine to your hearts and to your souls…teach them to your children so that this will be what they speak about, when you are sitting at home, walking on your way, lying down to rest, and arising from your sleep. (Deuteronomy 11:18-19)

The simple meaning of this instruction is as follows:

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