The Origins of Land and Bond In this week’s Torah portion, Chayei Sarah, Abraham continues to model exemplary behavior that…
Two Minutes of Torah
In Torah, few words stand out more than Hineni – a word with no equivalent in English. It expresses a pivotal “here…
Playing rugby in college meant I often found myself in the middle of a match despising the other team. In…
It pains me how little stretch of the imagination it takes to place us in Parasha Noach this week. We stand face-to-face…
With this week’s parasha, B’reishit, we get to begin our Torah reading cycle once again. Here, we actually get not…
Chances are that many of us are familiar with the section of Ecclesiastes that begins, “To everything there is a…
The number seven is a pretty important number in the Torah and, in this week’s special Sukkot Torah portion, it shows up…
To Stumble and Return This week is Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath of Return that occurs between Rosh Hashanah and Yom…
This week’s parasha begins by saying, “You stand this day, all of you, standard bearers ready to enter into this…
Imagine this: you spent the last three years pouring all of your hard work and time into a project. You…