…[3]. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%AA [4]. I found this occurrence in about 5 minutes using a Bar Ilan search. Rashi had to do a manual search through all 24 books in the Tanach….
…and possessing the learning, courage, and integrity to seek the absolute “truth” as a finite, mortal human being in search of the Numinous Ding en sich, the “thing-in-itself,” to approximate…
…all be privileged to continue the search for a balance between Torah and livelihood, between engaging in society and protecting our beliefs. May the search for this balance in our…
…or not to carry her pregnancy to term. A draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was penned by the politically conservative Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Roe…
…the authors of the piyyut liturgy were “gedolei Yisroel,” “the great one’s of Israel,” a term that as we contend confers upon its bearer the valence of implicit covenantal canonicity…
In an unusual locution, the outer altar upon which the sacrifices are offered is called by the Torah Kodesh Kodashim, holy of holies. Previously, the term “holy of holies” was…
…of our Torah reading, Rashi notes that the Torah does not use the conventional term for lighting the menorah (le-hadlik) but the less common term leha’alot (to cause to rise)….
…must be higher than the usual meaning of this term taken from Sabbath law. His conclusion is that it should be shoulder height when the women are standing. The basis…
…the restrictions ending vis a vis haircutting, but intends both issues. – Regarding haircuts, the language used is “להסתפר,” which generally is not a term used to refer to shaving…
…the term ‘shidduch crisis’ is used to describe a surplus of single community members. “I find that term deeply offensive,” said Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of JOFA, whose Facebook…
…the Biblical prohibition against moving a homeowner’s fencepost to morph into a grander rule beyond its original intent. Thus, the term “Hasagat G’vul” was used in Sifre (Devarim, 188) in…
…can be reframed and expanded to encompass the traumatic experience, they can foster posttraumatic growth. Over the past three decades, an extensive body of research has emerged exploring the connection…