If your daughter cooks the most delicious chicken soup and kneidelach, you can tell her, "that was mamash geshmak (tasty).”

On the third Jewish birthday of a Jewish boy, friends and community members are invited to a festive haircutting ceremony called an upshernish or chalakah.

Culled from Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, and other sources, and translated into English, these pithy quotes have been grouped into categories for you to contemplate, internalize, and share.

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The very fact that one can steal an idol shows the pettiness of ascribing supernatural powers to figures of stone and metal.

When we understand that everything is a gift, then we escape the trap of an entitlement mentality.

"If you realize that the entire day you spend in the store is just so you can learn for one hour, you will never lose touch with the Torah.”

I have not lit the candles for the Shabbat or for the Jewish holidays since my pacemaker operation nine months ago. I was afraid of dropping the match and causing a fire—or so I told myself. But I am going to light the Shabbat candles tonight.