The Four Exiles is a common idea in Jewish thought. It refers to the four exiles that the Jewish people would go through subsequent to the exile in Egypt. The first exile was the Babylonian exile ...

In scheduling the reading of the parshiot for each Shabbos, our Sages scheduled the reading of one or both of the parshiot that deal with the story of Yosef always to fall on Chanukah. They saw an ...