Sara Japhet and Robert B. Salters, two highly respected scholars’ editing and translation of Rashbam’s commentary on Qoheleth (also spelled Kohelet, Ecclesiastes in English) is excellent. Rashbam was ...

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The Mishna tells us that even an impoverished Jew on the night of the Seder should eat in a reclining manner, as do free and independent people, on a couch as a demonstration of freedom. In addition, ...

The new month of Av began a few days ago. The first day of the month, Rosh Chodesh Av is also when *Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki)*, the most renowned Torah commentator, passed away 918 years ago. In ...

There is an interesting debate among the commentators as to what happened when Moshe cast down the tablets upon seeing the golden calf (32:19). The better known approach is that Moshe made a decision ...