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By the Numbers
16 Illuminating Facts About the Sun in Judaism

The closest star to Earth, it also holds a prominent place in Jewish literature, showing up again and again in Biblical stories and carrying layer upon layer of symbolism and meaning.
Your Questions
Are Deceased Parents Aware of the Happenings of Our Lives?

The Talmud discusses this question quite extensively.
Quiz
Take the Jewish Kings Quiz

Which king famously slew a giant with a slingshot?
Freeman Files
The Parable of the King in the Field

What does it actually mean?
Voices
How I Learned to Love Prayer

My relationship with prayer has not always been smooth.
Parshah
The Magic Word

Anxious Parshah
Just as with the mitzva of tefillin, for example, there is a designated place for them on the head and arm, and one feels the weight of the head-tefilla and the tightness of the hand-tefilla, so too with the mitzvot of love and fear of G-d... the fulfillment of these mitzvot is that there be a bodily sensation, that the very flesh of the heart actually feel; just as, for example, [the love one feels] when one meets a truly devoted friend.
— Hayom Yom, Av 20
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To whom does a Jew pray?

Can He be described? Does He have a name?

No, there is no description with which to imagine Him, no name with which to grasp Him.

Even the pronoun “Him” implies too much to be true—as though He could be a third party, absent or present. Even the title “Infinite Light” misses the mark, as th...

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