Cheshvan[1] is a quiet month with no festivals. Chazal call it Marḥeshvan[2] (“Bitter Ḥeshvan,” because mar means “bitter.”[3]). After the high of Tishrei, with High
We are quite familiar with space—we move freely in space back and forth; we concur space on land and beyond; we reclaim land from sea;
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange
There is a dispute in the Talmud as to when the world was created. According to Rabbi Eliezer, the world was created in the month
The holiday of Passover – Pesach – is called zman cheruteinu– time of our freedom. As we have discussed many times on this blog (see
Today is Rosh Chodesh Adar Bet – the New Moon and the beginning of the second month of Adar. If we ever to have a month
Bo: Exodus 10:1 – 14:16 The Erev Shabbat parshat Bo (the Eve of Sabbath of the week when we read the Torah section Bo) 2014
As we have discussed in the post, It’s the time, stupid, Pharaoh never got the message that it’s all about mastery of time. To make
Presented at the International Torah and Science Conference in Miami International University on December 18, 2005 Alexander Poltorak Introduction. This is the third in