It's been said that the Jewish holidays all celebrate military victories against others. How can we make celebrations over massacring others?

The Cruel Death of the Scapegoat

by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld

In the Yom Kippur service with the two goats, one of the goats – the se’ir la’azazel – was taken out to be pushed off a cliff – and would be broken to pieces. What was the point of doing something so cruel?

Shabbat Without Gluten

by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld

End of Slavery in Egypt

by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld

When did the slavery end in the Egypt – at the start of the plagues or when they finished?

How Miraculous was the Splitting of the Sea?

by Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld

There is a Midrash that Nachshon was the first to jump into the sea. When the water reached his nostrils, it miraculously split into two. This seems to contradict what the Torah itself says – that God brought a powerful east wind which drove back the sea the entire night?

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