Why then do You wish to drown my [Egyptian] children?’” (Bialik & Ravinsky, Sefer Ha-Aggadah, p. 73). That is to say, the discussion on whether the angels should sing or not begins with an awareness ...

What we do is quite different, though. Alma teaches Talmud and Aggadah [rabbinic literature], and some others focus on ritual and prayer. But nobody deals with Halacha – except for us. What makes the ...

Answer: While Shema Koleinu, in most congregations, serves as a “highlight” of the Selichot prayers (which we also recite on numerous occasions throughout the year), it was not originally a High ...

On the afternoon of April 8, Cleveland will have a primary view of the total solar eclipse as the moon’s shadow travels across North America. The celestial event, which occurs when the moon blocks the ...

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I love studying midrashim about what happened at Mount Sinai. The rabbinic imagination leaps in many wonderful directions to describe this central event in our life as a people. One midrash captured ...

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I saw in Shtisel the topic of surrogacy came up. It wasn’t very favorable. Is this across Orthodoxy or just in more right-wing circles? Dear G.S.- Thanks for your question. I’ve never seen Shtisel ...

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Any fan of midrash has got to love ‘The Four Children.’ This well-known section of the Passover Haggadah considers four types of children who might be sitting there at the Passover Seder: the wise one ...

Nan Goodman doesn’t spend much time wondering what Madonna, Mick Jagger or Ashton Kutcher may have gotten from dabbling in the “Kabbalah trend” of the early 2000s. What concerns Goodman are what ...