Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

In Parshas Mattos  we read of the war that God commanded the Jewish people to wage against the Midianites in vengeance against their effort...

At the end of  Parshas Behaaloscha  (Numbers 12) we read of the incident where Miriam and Aaron, the elder siblings of Moses, speak critica...

The Talmud ( Yevamos 62b) tells us that Rabbi Akiva had 12,000 pairs of disciples, all of whom passed away during the period from Pesach to ...

A few years ago, while I was teaching in Politz Day School, we were studying  Eilu Metzios , one of the chapters of the Talmudic tractate, B...

One of the basic principles of Judaism is that when God gave the written text of the Torah to Moses at Sinai, He also gave over to Moses an ...

I made this several years ago for my students when we were studying Mesechta Megilla, 22b. It started off as a simple set of stick figure i...

Recently, while learning with my chavrusa (t/y Torah Mates ), we looked up the famous story of the Talmudic sages Rav Yochanan and Reish Lak...

A major event occurred during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. [1] This was the translation of the Torah into Greek. This translation...

This is the first of a series of four posts on why the proper study of Jewish history is a very important part of the development of a true ...

If you are about my age, this diagram may be familiar to you. It used to be found in many Chabad publications, and I assume that it was orig...

An Index for the Talmud, After 1,500 Years - NYTimes.com Just came across this. The hyperbole in the article - and also from the pub...

The story of the martyrdom of Chana and her seven sons is recorded in several sources. The primary sources are the Talmud ( Gitin 57b), the...