A rabbi and historian explores the history of the Temple Mount, its presence in the Jewish imagination, and why more and more Jews are now going there to pray.
Frankincense, myrrh, and balsam.
The great scientist used talmudic phrases in one manuscript.
Durum wheat?
A new book upends the old story.
Judaism and the “last of the magicians.”
“To work and guard it.”
Making sense of a discomfiting law.
Although the Bible contains extensive descriptions of the ritual garments worn by Temple priests, artistic renderings are virtually nonexistent. But the Septuagint, a Greek translation. . .
As the festival on which both temples were dedicated, Sukkot is associated in both prophetic and rabbinic literature with the messianic era—and historically with several. . .
Contrary to popular wisdom, Jews did not abandon the Temple Mount following the destruction of the Second Temple.
Beginning at 9:15 a.m. (eastern daylight time), Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter delivers his annual all-day webcast on the themes of Tisha b’Av. Source sheets can. . .
One need not envision the reconstruction of the Temple, or even wish to pray where it once stood, to believe that the Jewish people ought. . .
Papyrus documents first published in 1911 cited a Jewish temple built in southern Egypt in the 5th century BCE. No one could find it—until 1997.