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Tumah: How is Birth Like Death? By While the Torah presents extensive rules of tumah (impurity), it gives no reasons for them. This should not stop us from speculating, though. One theory relates tumah to

Silence Says So Much By When Moshe tried to comfort Aharon after the death of his sons Nadav and Avihu (Leviticus 10:3), Aharon was silent (va-yidom). What was the nature of this silence? THE SILENCE

By , we presented an approach to justify korbanot. Just as someone madly in love is frustrated with a platonic relationship and wants to express the love physically, so to someone bursting with religious fervor

By We believe that God is beyond gender and sex, so it is startling to see rabbinic sources use sexual terms to depict the kirvah (closeness) that is the ideal result of korbanot (sacrifices). For

For over 50 years has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Rabbi Shlomo Katz. Born in New Jersey and having grown up between Los Angeles and

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Rabbi Ian Pear. Almost 20 years ago Rabbi Pear founded Shir Hadash, an

By “When you take the sum of the children of Israel according to their numbers… This they shall give, everyone who goes through the counting: half a shekel according to the holy shekel (shekel ha-kodesh)” (Exodus

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Mrs. Mali Brofsky. Mali has held numerous academic and administrative positions at educational

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Rabbi Josh Ross. After receiving an advanced double BA in History and Philosophy

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Rabbi Yehudah Potok, who has worked in a variety of Jewish educational

WebYeshiva is proud to announce its new launches this week. The zman will run for ten weeks until Purim and features more than 40 different live, interactive, online series on a variety of topics. All

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. During his long career he had the privilege of working alongside many distinguished colleagues. This week we introduce you

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Rabbi Michael Sunshine. After receiving semicha through Yeshivat Hamivtar, Rabbi Sunshine  worked at

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Jeffrey Schrager, a Jewish educator who teaches with several different organizations around the

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to pollster, strategic communicator, and procreator Mitchell Barak. Throughout his 30-year career living in

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Chaplain (Captain) David Ruderman of the U.S. Armed Forces. When did you first

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Rabbi Todd Berman, Director of Institutional Advancement and a Ra”m at Yeshivat Eretz

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland,

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld. How did you meet Rabbi Brovender? I live in Chicago

For over 50 years Rabbi Brovender has taught thousands of students from all around the world. This week we introduce you to Beth Ben-Avraham. Beth and her husband made Aliyah to Be’er Sheva in 2015