It is this last aspect, the redemption of our firstborn sons, that I wish to consider, specifically the word pidyon, to redeem. The idea of redemption is a powerful one for the Jewish people. It is ...

These are times of both immense peril and extraordinary opportunity. With faith, preparedness, determination, and a focus on ...

Nothing is ever free from Donald Trump. History shows there's a price for such offers and it is almost always your own soul.

It was predicted and warned about, as the Zionist movement grew, that the effect of creating a Jewish nation-state would be ...

Rav Hirsch explains that each of the acts that negates these aspects of exile is miraculous and can only be understood as such – no force of nature could ever overcome the immense power wielded ...

This story highlights the deep Jewish value of honoring others. True goodness and redemption must always uphold respect and compassion for every individual. The writer is rabbi of the Western ...

Drawing upon the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah he proclaimed to the suffering Jewish world that redemption was at hand. His ideas reached Christians and Jews alike, in Morocco, Tunis ...

Reform Jews pray for redemption rather than for a ‘redeemer’. Orthodox Jewish beliefs about the Messiah The Messiah will be a human being descended from King David, although he will have ...

Jewish history has not been a straight line ... Hashem had already promised the Jews redemption in Parshat Shemot (3:15-17), and they had shown faith (4:29-31). But Moshe’s attempt backfired ...