Shavuot

Jerome Marcus explores understandings of freedom within halakhah and how they relate to Pesah and Shavuot

Ned Krasnopolsky explores the roles of meaning and obedience in matan Torah.

Through a nuanced examination of interrelated minhagim, Nachman Levine shows how the custom of eating dairy foods, particularly blintzes, on Shavuot reenacts a collective initiation into Torah Study, allowing us to reexperience Revelation.

Abe Mezrich presents a poem on the Book of Ruth.

  Josh Cahan   Pesikta de-Rav Kahana 12:11R. Lazar said: Like a king who wished to marry a well-born noblewoman, and said, “I will not wed her...