Two of the most important concepts in Judaism are derived from this week’s Torah portion, Emor. They are: kiddush hashem, the mitzvah of sanctifying God’s name, and chillul hashem, profaning God’s ...

The first reason is that the fundamental purpose of the redemption of this nation of slaves was Kiddush Hashem - ...

“The essence and reality of [how] Shabbos [can reinvigorate the world with another six days’ worth of ko’ach] is only through the fact that people keep and observe Shabbos! Throughout the millennia of ...

We are living in interesting times. In years past, it would be clear that an intermarriage, between a Jew and a Methodist, with a rabbi and a Methodist minister co-officiating, on a Shabbat afternoon, ...

One of the greatest problems plaguing the Jewish people is their inferiority complex. Jews are commanded to sanctify God’s name. In Hebrew the term is kiddush Hashem. The root of the word kiddush ...

Portion of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s The Sacrifice of Isaac, mid-1750s. The Kli Yakar observes that this is a tribute to Pinchas’s mesiras nefesh (self-sacrifice) for the honor of Hashem. Dovid ...

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