If only the teacher spoke English, an excellent solution would be to gift her a new, groundbreaking work, The Science Behind the Mishnah (Mosaica Press, 2024, and also available in Jewish ...

During these thousand years, this period was nourished by legends and unfounded speculations, such as the alleged conversion of the Khazars, used to compensate for the lack of historical sources. It ...

The Mishnah was formed due to fear that the Jewish people would lose their unity and beliefs if they were not in the Holy City.

Strikingly, this root is linked to the Hebrew word רֶמֶץ (remetz), meaning smoldering embers or glowing coals—echoed in the Mishnah’s discussion of ‘negaim’ – ritual afflictions ...

Maimonides, also known as Rambam and considered one of history’s preeminent Jewish scholars, wrote the Mishnah Torah in the 12th century as an all-inclusive guide to the system of Jewish law.