Mitzvah

Are there other lessons from October 7? - opinion

The October 7 massacre fell on 22 Tishrei – Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, two days that signify the highest joy: one completing the festival of Sukkot, the other our rejoicing in the Torah itself

Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi delivers a torah lesson at Ateret Yisrael Yeshiva in Jerusalem, November 19, 2019.
FIREFIGHTERS AND Palestinians extinguish a fire in agricultural fields near the town of Huwara in the West Bank, after an alleged attack by Israeli settlers.

Jews must stop letting this one mitzvah fuel fanaticism - opinion

Rabbi Simcha Hakohen Kook seen during a visit at King David's tomb, on Mt Zion in Jerusalem. The site is viewed as the burial place of David, King of Israel, according to a tradition beginning in the 12th century. May 01, 2014.

Beyond the Headlines: And you lifted us up - opinion

RED HEIFER

What honoring our parents teaches us about faith, logic, and Judaism


We need to preserve the beauty of Shmita - opinion

The concept of shmita is introduced in the Torah, where we are told to let the land lie fallow every seventh year.

 ‘SHMITA’ INVITES us to pause, to take a deep breath, to rest, to reflect and to reconsider where we are going.

In Jewish law, are commandments about intent or performance?

What is the relationship between a result-oriented attitude to mitzvot and a process-focused outlook on religious observance?

 HAS THE Torah reader fulfilled the Shema requirement even without intent?

Infusing theological meaning into the gender gap

What is the reason for the gender gap in mitzvot for women? Is it women's innate spirituality, or the Jewish woman’s central role as wife and mother?

A FREQUENT explanation as to women’s exemption? The time restraints of childcare

What does archaeology tell us about the origins of Judaism?

JPost One-on-One weekly 'Zoomcast': Episode 21 with Rosella Tercatin and senior lecturer at Ariel University Dr. Yonatan Adler

WOMEN ARE exempt from the time-bound mitzvah of tefillin

How are time-bound mitzvot in Judaism defined?

One of the major distinctions between the genders is women’s exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot.

CONSTRUCTING THE sukkah: Are women exempt from sitting in it?

Celebrating Israel – with pride and gratitude - opinion

God’s miracles have accompanied the birth, growth and development of the State of Israel throughout these 73 years.

CHILDREN CELEBRATE ahead of Independence day, at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh on Tuesday.

Seven processes of Smart Tzedakah that you can do

We believe that an approach to strategic giving can be modeled similarly to the approach many use to set up an investment portfolio.

A VOLUNTEER delivers a food package to a Holocaust survivor in Ramat Gan in January.

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Pay it forward, even without the NIS 750 subsidy

We lucky “haves” must give much more to the “have-nots” and the “once-hads.”

A man puts money into a charity box, in the streets of Mea She’arim in Jerusalem.

My kind of Ushpizin

Updating the ancient practice of inviting elevated souls into our sukkah by finding the mitzvah heroes all around us.

MYRIAM MENDILOW talks to a group of USYers in the courtyard of Yad Lakashish as the author looks on