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A collection of Yiddish newspapers I recently sold included an issue of Das Yudishe Blatt, published in the city of Mukacevo (Munkatch), Ukraine, on May 14, 1937 – the day after the passing of the ...

Why is the letter aleph in the word va’yikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus, written smaller than the others? It is smaller, suggests the Ba’al Haturim, because it reveals Moses’s ...

Why is the letter aleph in the word vayikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus written smaller than the others? A second, more mystical thought comes to mind. Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the ...

At this point, the man quietly walked over to the window in the train compartment, opened it and chucked out the remainder of the sandwich. He then started crying. Some moments later, he turned to the ...