By referring to the war as both the “Oct. 7 War” and the “Simchat Torah War,” we evoke different dimensions of this tragedy ...

(my translation) This Mishnah depicts an apocalyptic, catastrophic messianic period ... the apocalyptic messianism out of the Mishneh Torah’s final book. In his view, the Messiah is a political ...

5:116) Jews are in full accord with this. In the Hebrew Bible the primary cause of the Messianic Age is God. That a specific human being would play an important role in ushering in the Messianic ...

As always, there is a source of truth to consult: the Torah. The Torah calls one person an "ish" – a man (as distinct from an adult male) – more than anyone else. This is Moses. The first act ...

So did the other 350 residents of Israel’s only Messianic Jewish moshav. Sitting on a pine-covered ridge about ten miles west of Jerusalem, the Yad HaShmona community has lived in steady tension ...

Well-known Religious Zionist scholar Rabbi Alan Haber is convinced we are living in messianic times ... a person consider them as essentials, for study of them will neither bring fear or love ...

Rabba Sara Hurwitz speaks about the surprising reference to the sukkah in the Birkat Hamazon, the blessing after the meal during the holiday of Sukkot. The blessing says, “May God establish for ...

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Monday morning echoed the words of a leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbi, instructing that yeshiva students avoid any non-Torah learning activity, due to ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Jews around the world are attempting a difficult spiritual straddle this week: how to celebrate the joyous holiday of Simchat Torah on the first anniversary of the Oct.

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Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that the dorsal premotor cortex serves a 'meta-learning' function, overseeing and regulating physical movements. Once believed to be limited to ...

The biotech company Scholar Rock reported Monday that its experimental medicine improved motor function in patients with a muscle-wasting disease called spinal muscular atrophy, paving the way for ...