On March 1, millions of Muslims around the globe ushered in the sacred month of Ramadan, marking the start of a month of ...

Our second grader is about to finish Tractate Berachot at school, and the fascinating phenomena unpacked in Science Behind the Mishnah are a great resource to match his natural curiosity about the ...

(JTA) — As an avid book collector who operates an independent Jewish press, Larry Yudelson was excited to learn that a new, annotated version of the Mishnah, the earliest compendium of Oral ...

Rabbi Yosi says (the failure of) Haman’s power is our authority. Jews should always remember and celebrate our survival and our enemy’s downfall; not with hate, but by joy. Rabbi Simeon says it was ...

That is: to be seen in Yerushalayim for these momentous occasions. However, the Mishnah in Masechet Chagigah points out that “Yera’eh” has the same spelling as “Yireh.” One means he ...

The Mishnah was formed due to fear that the Jewish people would lose their unity and beliefs if they were not in the Holy City.