“God spoke to Moses saying: ‘Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from…
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Mishpatim, the rules laid out in this week’s appropriately-named Torah portion, are those commandments that inherently make sense, that come…
Metaphor abounds in our Torah; there is no shortage of poetic language used to describe God, God’s relationship with us,…
Imagine the scene: you’ve just left Egypt with all of your belongings on your back, surrounded by everyone you know,…
“Speak to the whole community of Israel and say that on the tenth of this month each of them shall take…
Why do we drink four cups of wine during our commemoration of Passover? A historian might point out the parallels…
Why do we drink four cups of wine during our commemoration of Passover? A historian might point out the parallels…
Teaching Us How To Say Goodbye As we approach the end of the book of Genesis, our parsha features the…
Teaching Us How To Say Goodbye As we approach the end of the book of Genesis, our parsha features the…
B’shert It’s a term we Jews use colloquially to characterize something fated, something meant to be, or even something ordained…