What is the essence of Jewish service? A famous midrash (found in the introduction to the aggadic compilation Ein Yaakov) ...

Balak precedes the Fast of the Fourth Month (that’s what the navi calls Shiv’a Asar b’Tammuz) almost 80% of the time. That includes, in Chutz LaAretz, the years when Shavuot is Friday-Shabbat an ...