Boundaries

Given the chalanges posed by emancipation and the modern age of multicultural universalism, does Jewish identity have a future?

On the personal, cosmic and spiritual significance of the Torah's kilayim (anti-hybridization) laws

At each of their stops over their forty-year trek, the people made sure to erect their tents in a modest arrangement. Apparently, it was this exceptionally sensitive quality amongst them that made it impossible for Balaam to harm them.

If you want to walk on the earth, you need to stay a little bit above it.

"One who spares the rod, hates his child" -- what is the parctical meaning in this adage for today's parent?

We all have the same problem. It just shows itself in different forms. On the one hand we want freedom: healthy, pure, wholesome joys, the just rewards and fruits of our efforts. On the other hand, this quest is beset by problems, which we can group under...

Isn’t marriage between man and woman a violation of the laws of kilayim, which prohibit the intermixing of divergent species?

"Differentiation" is a double paradox -- and the essence of holiness

You can hide it enough so it doesn't embarrass you in public. You can pretty it up so that others are not as annoyed with it. You can try to ignore its whelps and howls when it gets out of hand. But can you free yourself of your ego?