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This week’s ‘Haftarah’ – weekly prophet’s portion – is found in the Book of Isaiah, chapter 54 and speaks about

Today is the sixth of the Hebrew month of Sivan {סיון} and that means we are celebrating the Festival of

The main difference between a sabbatical year (‘Shemitah’{שמיטה}) and the jubilee (‘Yovel’{יובל}) is the issue of the property ownership. While

During this week’s posts we have focused on the way the different tribes of Israel’s camps were organized in the

This week’s ‘Haftarah’ (weekly Prophet’s portion) tells the story of the birth of Samson and can be found in the

Yesterday we mentioned the connection between the weekly Torah portion (‘Naso’) and the weekly Prophet’s portion which speaks about Samson.

This week ‘s ‘Haftarah’ (weekly Prophet’s portion) is taken from the Book of Zechariah (Zechariah 2:14-4:7) and talks about Joshua,

After the Israelites left Mount Sinai, they started to complain about life in the desert and said the following: “Now

Yesterday we mentioned that our weekly Torah portion talks about the story of the spies Moses send to the land

In Biblical Hebrew, one can find two different words to describe the verb ‘to spy’. One of them can be