The Kosher Trader Joe’s Facebook Group is much more than just a place to discover new products or ask questions, and it’s also far from new: the group has been active, and growing, for more than seven years. With almost 60,000 followers, it has solidified itself as the largest kosher
In this episode, we follow Herod the Great’s rise to power, watch Judea devolve into chaos under the rule of successively unstable Roman Emperors, and witness a climactic and devastating showdown between the Jews and their Roman occupiers. The Jewish Story
Today’s daf addresses the question of whether buying and selling is allowed on hol hamoed. Here’s the first mishnah: One may not purchase houses, slaves and cattle (on the intermediate days of a festival) except for the needs of the festival, or for the needs of the seller who does
Try to come up with the most Jewish spice out there and you might have some trouble answering. But ask Ori Zohar and Ethan Frisch, the founders of the single-origin spice company Burlap & Barrel, and you’ll quickly get a list of spices with a robust claim to the title.
Today’s daf introduces the subject of tzara’at, the biblical skin affliction often translated as leprosy. If one found a suspect blemish on one’s body, the priests were to evaluate it to decide if the person was in one of four categories: 1) pure and free to go about everyday life;
Today’s daf continues a discussion that began yesterday, about a field in which someone has been buried. Graves, as we now know, communicate death impurity to anyone who comes in contact with them, and to anything that is built nearby or grows on top. Therefore, graves were marked — often
Tu Bishvat, the so-called Jewish new year for trees, will be celebrated by many Jews on Sunday evening with seders full of fruits, readings from Kabbalah or sacred texts about the earth. The Tu Bishvat seder originally arose to celebrate the kabbalists’ vision of the Tree of Life, a branching
One of the most famous statements about Torah study, found in multiple places in the Talmud and in the daily morning prayer service, is Talmud Torah k’neged kulam, which means “the study of Torah surpasses them all.” The “all” is typically understood to mean the rest of the mitzvot. Torah