Episode 28 The Balsam Tree and the Resurrection of the Holy Land

Though the Temple in Jerusalem no longer stands, the spiritual obligation to guard the temple remains.

A tension at the heart of a great poem by Robert Frost, together with two mitzvot, helps reveal the Jewish view of the natural world.

A regular sacrifice in the Temple captures the importance of habit to a meaningful life.

The transformed purpose of challah helped put the family home at the center of Jewish life.