Tomorrow is the public fast day known as the “Fast of Esther” and it is customary among the entire Jewish nation to fast on this day In...

Holding the Purim Feast at Night The holiday of Purim is different than all other holidays we celebrate in that whereas regarding other...

The Mitzvah of Joy and Torah Learning on Purim Day There is a Mitzvah eat heartily during the Purim Feast. One should preferably eat...

by Ram ben Ze'ev The Power of Restraint: Controlling the Animal Soul in the Digital Age In every generation, the battle between the...

“Remember What Amalek Has Done to You” On the Shabbat preceding Purim, which is this coming Shabbat, after the opening of the Ark...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Shabbat before Purim is always called  Shabbat Zachor . The Shabbat to remember. Its origin...

The Custom of the “Commemoration of the Half-Shekel”- The Seventh of Adar In the beginning of Parashat Ki-Tisa, which we read again not...

Shemot 27:20-30:10 - Clothes by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen   Rabbi Jeremy Rosen In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Polonius tells his son Laertes to dress...

by Ram ben Ze’ev Purim: The Most Important Jewish Holiday As Purim approaches, beginning on the evening of Thursday, March 13th, 2025,...