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At 176 verses, Naso is the longest of the parshiyot. Yet one of its most moving passages, and the one that has had the greatest impact over the...
Bamidbar is usually read on the Shabbat before Shavuot. So the Sages connected the two. Shavuot is the time of the giving of the Torah. Bamibar means,...
I argued in my Covenant and Conversation for parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense,...
The parsha of Emor contains a chapter dedicated to the festivals of the Jewish year. There are five such passages in the Torah. Two, both in the book...
Some years ago I was visited by the then American ambassador to the Court of St James, Philip Lader. He told me of a fascinating project he and his...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks shares the extraordinary and inspiring story of the State of Israel, extracted from his album “Home of Hope”, which was...
The Rabbis moralised the condition of tzara’at – often translated as leprosy – the subject that dominates both Tazria and Metzora. It was, they...
Excavating the history of words can sometimes be as revealing as excavating the ruins of an ancient city. Take the English word “enthusiasm”....
Seder night is a highlight of the Jewish calendar for parents and children alike. It is the night that revolves around children, and parents are...
This week’s essay is a chapter in the book ‘Studies in Spirituality‘ by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, written in 2016. One of the most...
Here’s a fun and engaging Pesach activity developed for teenagers and adults to use throughout their Seder night. It features challenges and...
The American Declaration of Independence speaks of the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Recently, following the...
At the beginning of this parsha Moses performs a tikkun, a mending of the past, namely the sin of the Golden Calf. The Torah signals this by using...
The more I study the Torah, the more conscious I become of the immense mystery of Exodus 33 . This is the chapter set in the middle of the Golden Calf...
Chazal, our Sages, asked a strange question in the Gemara of Chullin (139b) : Esther min haTorah minayin? “Where do we find a hint in the Torah...
Beethoven rose each morning at dawn and made himself coffee. He was fastidious about this: each cup had to be made with exactly sixty beans, which he...
It was the first Israelite house of worship, the first home Jews made for God. But the very idea is fraught with paradox, even contradiction. How can...
One of the most famous phrases in the Torah makes its appearance in this week’s parsha. It has often been used to characterise Jewish faith as a...
The Ten Commandments are the most famous religious and moral code in history. Until recently they adorned American courtrooms. They still adorn most...
The first translation of the Torah into another language – Greek – took place in around the second century BCE, in Egypt during the reign of...
The American writer Bruce Feiler published a best-selling book entitled The Secrets of Happy Families. [1] It’s an engaging work that uses research...
The Torah sometimes says something of fundamental importance in what seems like a minor and incidental comment. There is a fine example of this near...
Genesis ends on an almost serene note. Jacob has found his long lost son. The family has been reunited. Joseph has forgiven his brothers. Under his...
Jacob was on his death-bed. He summoned his children. He wanted to bless them before he died. But the text begins with a strange semi-repetition: ...
Maimonides called his ideal type of human being – the sage – a rofeh nefashot, a “healer of souls”.[1] Today we call such a person a...
Something extraordinary happens between the previous parsha and this one. It is almost as if the pause of a week between them were itself part of the...
In his Hilchot Teshuvah (Laws of Repentance), Moses Maimonides makes one of the most empowering statements in religious literature. Having explained...
It is one of the most enigmatic episodes in the Torah, but also one of the most important, because it was the moment that gave the Jewish people its...
Why Jacob? That is the question we find ourselves asking repeatedly as we read the narratives of Genesis. Jacob is not what Noah was: righteous,...
In this week’s sedra, we see Isaac as the parent of two very different sons. The boys grew up. Esau became a skilful hunter, a man of the outdoors;...
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