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Avraham is renowned in the Western traditions as an exemplar of faith par excellence, but Judaism places equal emphasis on Avraham’s role as an...
Elijah and Elisha were Israel’s miracle working prophets. They saved poor widows miraculously from the clutches of poverty and when needed even...
When Avram returned victorious after battling the kings who had kidnapped his nephew, Lot, he was greeted by Melchizedek, the king of Shalem, who also...
One can easily identify with the angst of the people who complained of their perception that God seemingly heeded neither their good deeds nor their...
As a result of the great flood, Noah and his family were left in the role of becoming the new “Adam and Hava” – the progenitors of the world....
At the end of this week’s haftarah, God promises the restored Israel, after its return from Babylonian exile, that its leader, David (or one of his...
The study of the interpretation of texts is call “hermeneutics” and is a pertinent subject as we begin another year of reading the Torah. We are...
The prophet opens with a proclamation that God created a purposeful world. He then enjoins upon those whom He created to act as His advocates: “I...
In the last lines of the Torah, God shows Moshe the promised land and tells him that after his death, He will fulfill His promise to His people to...
Shemini Atzeret is such a confusing holiday. Is it part of Sukkot, or isn’t it? Why the confusion? In one place in the Torah, Sukkot is seven days...
With the completion of the building of the First Temple, King Solomon offered a prayer of thanksgiving before God and prayers on behalf of the people...
The Tanach (Bible) contains an undercurrent of mythic stories about the creation of the world. In these tales, God does battle against serpents,...
The book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), which is read on the Shabbat of the intermediate days of Sukkot, is filled with timeless aphorisms, some more...
Yonah was a prophet running scared, anxious to avoid his God-determined mission at all cost. He fled to Yafo and then hopped on a boat headed toward...
We have entered into an eventful year. (Hopefully for the good!). This year is not just 5782, it is also the Shmita year (the Sabbatical year) with...
Hosea’s prophetic message closely links repentance, the return to God, and political hegemony. Hosea champions the idea that one’s political fate...
Judging from the mass of different midrashim composed during the Talmudic period which attempt to come to grips with the significance of the Akedah...
Rosh HaShanah is also known as Yom HaZikaron – The day of Remembrance, in part, on account of our expectation that God will remember His loving...
Much is made of Hannah, the prophet Samuel’s mother, as a role model for our prayers. Tradition has it that it was her sincere prayers while...
If I may wax hyperbolic for a moment, there is no more haunting and more well known tefillah on Rosh Hashanah than Unataneh Tokef – a prayer which...
The phrase “לא בשמים היא” – It is not in heaven” (Deut. 30:12) has received inordinate press in recent years on account of its use...
This week’s haftarah is the last of the Shiva de’Nehamta (the Seven Haftarot of Consolation) which lead up to Rosh Hashana. Its message is aimed...
No concept has vexed modern Jews more than the idea that the Jewish people are the “chosen people”. In modern Hebrew, “chosen people” is...
At the beginning of this week’s haftarah, the prophet promises that God’s “light” will come and darkness and despair will be dispersed. (See...
This week’s parasha presents us with a law concerning capital punishment which, at face value, seems irrelevant to us, but, in fact, plays a...
Since at least the time of the rabbinic sages, it has been a common practice to see the books of the Tanach (the Jewish Bible) as a unified whole. To...
At the end of this week’s parashah, the Torah relates a bizarre atonement ritual, which was to be carried out in the event of the discovery of the...
Sometimes the debate over an obscure verse can yield interesting and thought-provoking religious ideas worthy of note. The beginning of chapter 52 of...
Chapter 14, in this week’s parshah, ostensibly opens with a verse which limits the religious propriety of injuring one’s body as an expression of...
What is the role of the prophet? Is a prophet a soothsayer, a future teller or is a prophet someone who says what needs to be said when it needs to be...
Why do Jews say a blessing (bracha) over eating food? The most well-known Scriptural reference for this practice is found in this week’s parshah:...
After the exile at the hands of the Babylonians, it was totally reasonable for the people of Judea to experience insecurity. It was totally...
Since its foundation, the Jewish tradition has struggled over what best inspires positive behavior and identification. Are people more likely to...
This week’s haftarah begins a series of seven special haftarot which follow Tisha b’Av. These haftarot, known as the “shiva d’nechamta – the...
My beloved teacher, Rabbi Simon Greenberg z”l, once commented that the purpose of Jewish learning was to encourage a person to think authentically...
This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Hazon, named for the first word of this week’s special haftarah for the Shabbat preceding Tisha b’Av. It is a...
We are in the midst of the three weeks of mourning over the destruction of Jerusalem and the First and Second Temples, once in 586 BCE and again in 70...
Immediately before the Children of Israel entered into the land, Moshe was confronted by a major controversy. Two and half tribes, laden with...
This Shabbat we begin the annual cycle of three special haftarot which precede the fast day of Tisha B’av, the fast day mourning the destruction of...
When Moshe was about to relinquish his leadership over the children of Israel, he addressed God in a most unusual way: “Moshe spoke to the Lord,...
The prophets Isaiah and Micah were contemporaries, both living during the reign of Hezekiah, a period in which the Assyrian empire threatened the fate...
Balaam created a quandary for the sages. What to do about a sorcerer for hire who had the ability not only to communicate with God, to make demands...
There are lots of difficult biblical stories; stories which transmit societal rules and then go about breaking them as part of the storyline. We are...
Moshe’s career as prophet-king had its ups and downs, but with the crisis at Mei Meriva – the Waters of Conflict, it reached its nadir. This was...
Positions of power carry with them the potential for dishonesty and disreputable behavior. Even honest leaders must worry about their reputations....
The rationale for the challenge of Korah and those who joined him were never made explicit in the Torah. For the rabbinic sages, this lacuna provided...
Almost everyone has heard of Ruth the Moabite, Naomi’s daughter-in-law and progenitor of the House of King David. In the rabbinic tradition, she...
When Moshe sent forth representatives of each of the tribes to reconnoiter the land, they returned with a damning report which destroyed the...
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