We can agree on many things when it comes to the holiday of Shavuot: Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi in the former’s eponymous book is profoundly inspiring. The rabbinic intern who gives the 3:30 a.m. lecture ...

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While there is unanimity among Jewish religious thinkers that the primary covenant, Brit Sinai, took place at Sinai, there is disagreement about its precursor. In his Kol Dodi Dofek, Rabbi Yosef Dov ...

A more general understanding of the sacrificial service may flow when considering an important aspect of covenant, the contractual partnership between God and His people. The two major covenants in ...