As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

Rashi, explaining the view of Rabbi Nehemiah in the Talmud [1] that they spontaneously sang the song together, says that the Holy Spirit rested on them and miraculously the same words came into their ...

While God performs awesome miracles, He apparently also balances them with as many “natural” causes as possible. This is ...

What particularly fascinates me is how the book reveals the Mishnah's sophisticated understanding of physical and ...

The Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shvat, AKA the New Year for the Trees, is right around the corner, falling out on February 12th ...

Our Sages also explained in the Mishnah (Makkot 11:1 ... and vengeance (Maimonides, Book of Commandments, Negative Commandment 248). Second, a person is created in the image of God, and one ...

Somewhat like the combination of the realized and yet future eschatology of the Gospel of John, the Book of Revelation looks back to the ... fiery red is a symbol of murder and persecution. The ...

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While the commentaries analyze each miracle on its own, the overall thrust of the presentation seems to be that G-d showed an added level of care for the continual functioning of the Temple.