Happy New Year! The Mishnah explains there are four heads of the year. The first of Nissan is the new year for kings and for festivals. The first of Elul is the new year for ...
Tzedakah – Charity or Justice While Merriam-Webster may define tzedakah as “right behavior as traditionally manifested among Jews by acts of charity” a more accurate translation is “justice” or “righteousness.” Where charity may seem like ...
The Western Wall (Ha-Kotel Ha-Maaravi) was a retaining wall that Herod the Great built more than 2,000 years ago when he ambitiously expanded the Temple Mount. While the First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians ...