Shavuot, by all reason, should be the pinnacle of Jewish holidays. After all, this was the cataclysmic “day the Earth stood ...

Carrying yesterday’s forms unchanged into altered reality can itself become a kind of falsehood.

They did not preserve Sinai mainly as a story about a prophet on a summit. They preserved it as the moment a people ...

Learning to seek the fire: we find many parallels between the story of the burning bush, the Sneh, and Matan Torah at Mount ...

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai — a revelation that occurs in the wilderness where Moses first encountered the divine at the burning bush.

The Israel Defense Forces supplied approximately 724,000 desserts to soldiers ahead of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, the military said on Wednesday. The IDF Technological and Logistics Directorate, ...

Diogenes Laertius loved telling fancy anecdotes concerning diets of great Greek philosophers. Green figs were Zeno's favorite ...

Ahead of the holiday, President Isaac Herzog celebrates the country’s farmers, who provide Israelis “with all the bounty of the land.” ...

Standing at Sinai is not an event that happened and ended. It is ground that continues - that is transmitted from vessel to ...

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At the approaching holiday of Shavuot, we will read the beautiful words of Ruth, spoken after the death of her husband, to ...