The verb for “loving” appears in the Bible for the first time when Hashem commands Abraham to offer up his son “that he loves” (Gen. 22:2) — Isaac. Afterwards, Isaac himself becomes the subject of ahavah, as the Bible reports that…
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Exploring Love – ahavah, r’chim, chibah, and agav (Part 1 of 2)
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The Powerful Legacy of Jewish Women
The Israeli women who suffered on October 7 endured unspeakable terror at the hands of terrorists—they were degraded, raped, murdered, mutilated, and then, tragically, disbelieved by many. Unlike Sarah, our biblical foremother whose son Isaac…
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Ox-ford University — Studying the Mind of a Beast and More Zevachim 69-71
69 The Universe is a Giant Kal V’chomer Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses the source for the famous rule of dayo by Kal V’chomer. A Kal V’chomer is the first of the thirteen rules used to derive halachos from the Torah, as per the…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part V
From Plessy to Palestine: Separate but Equal Revisited Series Preface Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel explores how questions of law, belonging, and justice define everyday life between the river and the sea. Written from…
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The Matriots of the Patriots
Two Mothers and the Covenant Two women stand behind the tent curtains — not out of curiosity, but because they hear words that will shape the covenant’s future. One hears, at ninety, the promise of a son. The other hears her husband preparing…
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Inviting G-d To Dinner
Rebecca’s painful pregnancy led her to consult a prophet, who revealed she carried twin ‘giants’ (ge’im) as the Torah describes them. From these two, the sages prophesied, would emerge two brilliant gems: Rebbe and Antoninus (Talmud, Avodah…
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The Cavalry Of Righteousness: The Tzaddikim & The Zohar’s “Horses Of Might”
Iyov / Job 39:19–25: הֲתִתֵּן לַסּוּס גְּבוּרָה הֲתַלְבִּישׁ צַוָּארוֹ רַעְמָה הֲתַרְעִישֶׁנּוּ כָּאַרְבֶּה הוֹד נַחְרֹו אֵימָה יַחְפְּרוּ…
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How Institutional Bias Is Undermining the BBC’s Credibility
In November 2025, both BBC Director-General Tim Davie and News Director Deborah Turness resigned after the public revelation that the broadcaster had manipulated excerpts of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech in a Panorama documentary….
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What Ireland Better Learn from Israel—and Quickly
Few countries on Earth are under siege like Israel and Ireland, the former having fought off coalition after coalition of enemies attacking relentlessly for the last three-quarters of a century, with the latter now wilting under a different yet…
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Cooking: life, fire, necessity
The Human Verb There is hardly a more universal verb than “to cook.” Long before cultures invented philosophies or liturgies, they discovered fire. And before they discovered fire, they learned hunger. The Hebrew bašalבשל captures this…
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