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"Your People Shall Be My People": What Ruth Teaches Us This Shavuot
At Sinai, there was thunder.
There was fire. There was smoke rising from the mountain, a sound like a great shofar growing louder and louder, and a voice so overwhelming that our ancestors said: w...
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Neshama: The Soul of Shavuot — and Why This Festival Is About You
There is a Hebrew word that does not translate easily.
Neshama.
You could say it means "soul." But that barely scratches the surface. In Jewish thought, the Neshama is not simply the part of you ...