The Mandrakes and the Horoscope Rabbi Chaim Navon is a Ra’M (senior rabbinical teacher) at Midreshet Lindenbaum What was the first fertility treatment ever in Jewish history? Well, it was probably the Mandrake plant, or duda’im, to use the Biblical term. The Torah describes the tense atmosphere that prevailed between Leah and Rachel because of …
Humility and Pride: The Vestments of the Kohen Gadol Rabbi Chaim Navon Midreshet Lindenbaum Faculty Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, is the only day on which the Kohen Gadol, the holiest of men, may enter the Temple’s Holy of Holies, the holiest of earthly places. The Torah describes the attire of …