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Tag: Bereshit
How to Light Shabbat Candles: A Beginner’s Guide
Lighting Shabbat candles is one of our most beautiful traditions. Go grab your candles, here's how to light Shabbat candles step by step.
Tsvia Weisberger
December 15, 2024
Erev Shabbat
Holidays
Fat Liberation in Gan Eden
God created humans with naked bodies and no shame. Now, we live in a world that wants us to forget that we were made in ...
Rebecca Galin
November 14, 2024
JTS Senior Sermon
Learning
Haftarah for B’reishit
The theme of creation links the haftarah to the theologies of Creation in the Bible. The prophet expresses the continuity of divine action.
Etz Hayim Humash
October 21, 2024
Isaiah
Neviim (Prophets)
The Art of Assimilating Wisely
Hanukkah—when we read about the Maccabees resisting assimilation and Joseph embracing it—is a time to look at the art of assimilation wisely.
Rabbi David Baum
December 14, 2023
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Reflections
