On the other hand, the Torah commands us to be happy on the holidays: ושמחת בחגך אתה ובנך ובתך ועבדך ואמתך והלוי והגר והיתום והאלמנה אשר בשעריך You shall rejoice in your festival, with your son and ...

Once there was a place called the Ohel Moed, the Tent of Meeting, a this-world-yet-heavenly realm where Moses communed with ...

On the Shabbat before Pesach, Israel risked everything to begin offering the Korban Pesach, and in doing so we made ourselves great, making G-d that much greater in proportion. This manifestation of t ...