While reading Parshat Vayishlach this year, I was struck by the imbalance between speech and silence and what it suggests ...

Rabbi Marc Israel This week’s Torah portion is Vayera: Genesis 18:1 - 22:24 The first Shabbat after daylight standard time always comes as a shock to... Rabbi David Levin This week’s Torah portion is ...

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All Ohr HaTorah regulars know about my little bit of a trick question: “How long did it take the Israelites to get from Mt. Sinai to the land of Canaan?” The uninitiated almost always say, “Forty ...

The first word in our portion re’eh is one of the most powerful terms found in the Torah. In fact, God is described as a ro’eh on three different levels. The first time the word is found in the Torah, ...

Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...