Rav Stern's shiur (lesson) was the most thought provoking: Rashi and Tosafot disagree as to the reasons that we do Bedikat and Bitul Chametz (the Search and the nullification of leaven ...

“It was true in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, which brought us back to our homeland, in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, Gush Etzion, the Jordan Valley, and the Golan Heights. And it was true after ...

To Martin Buber, the Zionist philosopher who remained a Germanophile all his life, the Jewish socialist experiment was doomed ...

The medieval scholar and Bible commentator Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) asked: “Why, if the Torah is a book of laws for the Jewish people, does it begin with the history of creation and the ...

(Numbers 13:3) Rashi comments: "Anytime the term 'men' [anashim] is used in the Bible, it denotes important men; for at that time they were [still] righteous." (Rashi's source is Midrash Raba.) ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. While Rashi is the favorite Bible commentator for many people, they know virtually nothing about him. People also fail to ...

Leven named his foundation after the great medieval French Torah commentator Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki. One hundred years after Leven’s birth, and 30 years since the Rashi Foundation began making a ...

Rabbi Shlomo Bekhor Husin of Baghdad documented the exemptions, carefully jotting each down name in medieval Rashi script. In the following decades, many of those names vanished or morphed as ...