Derech Ha'Ir: The Halachot of facing Yerushalayim By Rabbi Yosef WeisenfeldYerushalayim is the focal point of our nations home, history, longing, aspiration and our tefillos. Three times daily we turn toward Yerushalayim and the Har HaBayis, in recognition of the fact that it is there that the Shaar HaShamayim is located. The term mizrach, east, has become synonymous with facing Yerushalayim. But is Yerushalayim truly to our east? On a map, Yerushalayim seems southeast of New York. Yet flights from New York to Eretz Yisrael

Levinas delivered these commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris

you will not leave the same as you arrived

Volume 2: With Eli Kranzler

are about the journey from slavery to freedom and from oppression to law-governed liberty

The Haggadah is the blueprint for remembering our past

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has a burning desire to avenge his father's death at the hands of the Israelis

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Fundamental Values in Halachah

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