The following is the text of the Tashlich prayer, in which a person’s sins are symbolically cast into a flowing ...| My Jewish Learning
In this Torah portion, Moses stresses to the Israelites the importance of keeping God’s commandments when they enter the Land ...| My Jewish Learning
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Shabbat is ushered in every Friday night with the lighting of Sabbath candles, referred to in Yiddish as licht bentschen. ...| My Jewish Learning
I was baking challah with a friend and before we put the challah in the oven she took off a small piece of dough, wrapped it in foil, and threw it in the bottom of the oven. She said it was called "taking challah." What does it mean to take challah, and w| My Jewish Learning
Henna is a vegetable-based dye used to temporarily color skin and more permanently dye hair. Jews from the Middle East ...| My Jewish Learning
Olive oil comes in 5-liter jugs; why doesn’t tahini? Once I poured some into my salty-to-sweet granola recipe, I never ...| My Jewish Learning
One of the greatest Passover challenges is undoubtedly what to eat for breakfast, besides just matzah with butter (as delicious as it ...| My Jewish Learning
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We learned yesterday that the Talmud prohibits Jews from drinking the wine of non-Jews. The rabbis are concerned that non-Jews ...| My Jewish Learning
A mishnah on today’s daf lists more foods prepared by non-Jews that a Jew is forbidden to consume:Milk that was ...| My Jewish Learning
Jews' participation in professional boxing in the interwar period is not as surprising as it might seem to be. By Allen Bodner| My Jewish Learning
Yiddish has a plethora of unflattering words for different personality types, including nudnik, shmendrik, shlump, shmo, nebbish, klutz, putz, pisher, ...| My Jewish Learning
Yiddish is famously replete with words for personality types that have no precise equivalent in most other languages. Nebbish is ...| My Jewish Learning
Pisher and alte kaker are both Yiddish words that describe people. A pisher is someone who is young, an alte ...| My Jewish Learning
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Though not a requirement, in some Jewish homes it has become a tradition for the husband to buy his wife ...| My Jewish Learning
The Talmud is a commentary on the Mishnah, a third century compendium of Jewish law. It’s mostly composed of the quoted ...| My Jewish Learning
While I was tempted to discuss the prosaic conclusion of Tractate Avodah Zarah’s first chapter found on today’s daf, it ...| My Jewish Learning
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Psychedelics, long caricatured as hedonistic tools of escapism, have lately come of age, with several chemicals now approved for use ...| My Jewish Learning
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