Weekly Sidra: Terumah (Gift) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 25:1-27:19 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 66:1-24 He who pays Maaser removes part of his self love for the sake of the Creator. Maaser kesofim literally means a tenth of money. Tithing one’s income for charity, is an age-old practice dating back to our forefathers’ days. Avraham gave Maaser to Malki-Tzedek (Bereishis 14:20); Yitzchak gave Maaser (Rashi Sefer Bereishit 26:12); and Yaakov, too, says, "And of all that You will give me I will surely give a tenth to You" (Bereishis 28:22). In addition, tithing is a time-honored formula for becoming wealthy (Tanchume Devarim 18), so much so that it is even permitted to give Maaser with the intent of "testing" Hashem to see if one will become rich through giving tithes (Based on the verse in Malachi 3:10). Is there any difference between the Mitzvah to give Tzedakah (charity) [...]
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The largest Jewish community of Indian Jews is that of the Bene Israel. Earlier the Bene Israel lived in the villages of west Maharashtra in the Konkan coast. In the nineteenth century they started moving to the cities, mainly to Bombay (now called Mumbai) and to other cities among them Pune, Ahmadabad and Karachi which is now part of Pakistan. Fro ...
The Jewish sages say: "In Nisan our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt, and in Nisan we will be redeemed." The name of the month, Nisan, is cognate to the Hebrew word for "miracles" (נסים). The two letters, nun, at the beginning and end of Nisan, allude, according to our sages, to "miracles of mira ...
In Mattityahu / Matthew 5:17-19 For, amen, truly I say to you, until Shamayim and haaretz pass away, not one yod, not one tag, will pass from the Torah until everything is accomplished. Therefore, whoever annuls one of the least of these mitzvot and so teaches Bnei Adam, shall be called katon (least) in the Malchut HaShamayim; but whoever practices ...
The good deeds of the ancestors contribute to the welfare of their descendants. The expression, "You remember the good deeds of the patriarchs," is repeated three times daily in the opening benediction of the Shemoneh Esrei prayer. The zechut avot concept, in Jewish theology, is expressive of the idea that individuals profit in the their ...
Amid mouting tension over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, much of the media’s ire has been directed not at the Palestinians who riot at the site but rather at Jews who merely wish to visit and pray there. Far too often, the latter are depicted as "extremist" or "fringe" simply because they seek to exercise their basic civil ...
Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, or Eqeb (עקב — Hebrew for “if [you follow],” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 46th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Deuteronomy. It comprises Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25. Jews in the D ...
Shayetet (Navy commando) soldiers injured by ”pacifist” flotilla passengers: Daniel Lazar ben Tina Taabel Lea One of the soldiers badly injured on the flotilla boat is from Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion.. He had his ear cut off by a knife, it was just holding by a scrap of skin, was shot in the leg and has a very badly ...
In east India in the States of Manipur and Mizoram exists a community which sees itself as descendants of the Menashe Tribe (which is one of the 10 lost tribes). These people have Chinese appearance and they claim that after their forefathers were exiled and enslaved by the Assyrians they somehow escaped from slavery and arrived in China. Later on ...
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