Kids love jigsaw and wood puzzles. Kids 1st Shape Puzzle will provide your kids hours of entertainment and fun learning Hebrew and English first words. Place the pieces correctly on the puzzle to hear the word and sound – animal’s sounds, transportation sounds, letters, numbers, and more. Eye and ear catching puzzle enhances matching and listening [...]
Davka in cooperation with Moshe Berman (developer) has released its a new iPhone | iPad app called Torah Notebook. Torah Notebook is the ideal tool for creating and managing Torah content on on the go. Torah Notebook includes: – 1200 Divrei Torah, drawn from both classical and modern sources. Selections can can be tagged, edited, printed [...]
וַתַּעַל שִׁכְבַת הַטָּל וְהִנֵּה עַל פְּנֵי הַמִּדְבָּר דַּק מְחֻסְפָּס דַּק כַּכְּפֹר עַל הָאָרֶץ The layer of dew lifted, and behold, on the surface of the desert, a fine, substance as fine as frost on the ground — Exodus 16:14 If you had to pick one item to symbolize Shabbat, the day of rest, which item would you [...]
The First Mitzvah — Fixing the New month The Torah was given to bring sanctity to the world. Each time a mitzvah is observed this goal is brought one stage closer, as another place and another moment becomes holy. The mitzvah causes holiness to be felt in two dimensions: space and time, but most mitzvos are limited to a specific place [...]
אַךְ בַּיּוֹם הָרִאשׁוֹן תַּשְׁבִּיתוּ שְּׂאֹר מִבָּתֵּיכֶם … but on the preceding day you shall clear away all leaven from your houses — Ex. 12:15 וְהָיָה לְאוֹת עַל יָדְכָה וּלְטוֹטָפֹת בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ כִּי בְּחֹזֶק יָד הוֹצִיאָנוּ ה’ מִמִּצְרָיִם And it shall be for a sign upon your hand and for ornaments between your eyes, for with a [...]
“Science and the Jewish Tradition: The Biology Section” book presents in a clear and engaging fashion the correspondence between numerous modern scientific discoveries and the Jewish tradition. The book negates the classic, erroneous assumption that there is a contradiction between Judaism and modern science. With each update developers intends to add new chapters, on Health, [...]
This new exciting application is part of Ulpan-Or iHebrew series of Hebrew learning books and applications. It presents to the reader fascinating insights, parables and commentaries associated with all twelve weekly Torah portions included in the book of Genesis – Be’Reshit. The main objective of this application is to assist the user in accessing biblical [...]
“Jewish day schools putting Apple iPads to the test” by Rabbi Jason Miller WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (JTA) — Toward the end of his life, Apple’s visionary leader, Steve Jobs, was visited by another computer innovator, Microsoft’s Bill Gates. The conversation turned to the future of education. As related in Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of Jobs, both [...]
“Shabbos Insights of the Maharal on Zemiros and Birkas HaMazon” by Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov Inspirational Torah thoughts by the Maharal on the Shabbat Birkon. A must-have for anyone looking to make their Shabbat meal experience more meaningful. A masterful commentary accompanied by a beautiful original translation. Enlightening and inspiring, this is one-of-a-kind that offers an elevating glimpse [...]
GroupShot app allows you to create a perfect photo by choosing the best face in every picture you took. If you ever tried to take a family picture you know that no matter how hard you try, you always end up with a few photos and in every photo someone else is blinking, or looking at the [...]
MyHeritage.com is an online genealogy site based in Bnei Atarot, Israel. MyHeritage.com was founded by an Israeli Startup, team of people with a passion for genealogy and a strong grasp of Internet technology. The homepage features a ‘Create a Family Tree’ tool where visitors can enter some information about themselves and their parents and begin the process of [...]
“They will not believe in me and they will not listen to my voice.” (4:1) If Moshe knew that the Jewish people had a tradition from their Patriarchs that a redeemer would arrive (as Maharsha writes) then why did he fear that “they will not believe in me”? However, Moshe’s fear was that after so many years of slavery [...]
וַיְמָרְרוּ אֶת חַיֵּיהֶם בַּעֲבֹדָה קָשָׁה בְּחֹמֶר וּבִלְבֵנִים וּבְכָל עֲבֹדָה בַּשָּׂדֶה And they embittered their lives with hard labor, with clay and with bricks and with all kinds of labor in the fields — Exodus 1:14 Moses, Museums and Menorahs. I must make a confession. As we read the Torah portion every week, year after year, it [...]
The names of Yosef’s two sons. Menasheh received his name because, “God has caused me to forget (NaSHaNi) all my hardships and all that was in my father’s house”(41:51). This expressed how Yosef was pained by the fact that he found himself in a place which made him forget his father’s house. Efrayim was named, because “God has [...]
One fine summer day Family Goldstein visit the zoo and are taken to the wolves’ enclosure. There they witness an incredible sight; the fulfilment of Isaiah’s prophecy – a wolf and a lamb side by side in the enclosure together! Mr Goldstein calls over one of the staff: “How long have you had a wolf [...]
