This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

This week’s Torah portion, T’rumah, represents another abrupt shift in focus within the book of Exodus from the mostly legal material of last week’s portion, Mishpatim, to the first of ...

Shai Cherry This week’s Torah portion is Mishpatim: Exodus 21:1 - 24:18 The plot of the Torah is not mysterious. It is not convoluted. It’s just... By Rabbi Erica Steelman This week’s Torah portion is ...

The Torah reading this Shabbat, like a significant subset of Shabbatot throughout the year, contains two different facets. The first is the reading that is next in line within the ...

This week’s Torah portion is Mishpatim: Exodus 21:1 – 24:18 The plot of the Torah is not mysterious. It is not convoluted. It’s just easy to lose in the fascinating details that we rabbis, going back ...

Loyalty to a path means saying, “I belong. Sometimes I will fail, sometimes I will err, but I am all in.” This is completely different from saying “I like this, but I don’t like that.” The first Torah ...

God’s will does more than guide individual behavior. It provides direction for building societies grounded in justice and compassion. After the thunder and lightning at Sinai, Moses began the longer ...

Right after the drama of Sinai – thunder, lightning, revelation, the Ten Commandments described in Parashat Yitro – the Torah does something unexpected. It gets… practical. Parashat Mishpatim does not ...

What is the true connection between the Tanach - the Written Torah - and the vast body of teachings that has been handed down ever since the Sinai Revelation, known as the Oral Torah? In this week's ...

New Synagogue will dedicate two official Israeli Defense Forces Torah covers to honor Israeli soldiers during Shabbat services. The late synagogue founder, S. Daniel Abraham, previously donated two ...

Today, light is ambient and inexpensive. We leave it on without noticing. Against that backdrop, the requirement of a steady flow of pure oil for the Mishkan’s lighting can easily be underestimated.

The picture – which the Olympian recreated for a Stellar cover that same year – showed a topless Bright doing a headstand while her son Flow, then around 10 months, suckled on her breast. “I’ve tried ...