This week’s Torah portion opens with the call, “You shall be holy!” This commandment obligates us to examine what holiness is. Is it a feeling? An experience? The explanation for this ...

But the Torah sets a contrast to this experience and equates it with another extreme experience – that of intimate relationships within the family, a taboo in every civilized culture recognizing ...

1. This week’s Torah portion is Ki Teitzei. This is the sixth Torah portion in the book of Deuteronomy. It is a continuation of Moshe Rabbeinu’s farewell address to the nation, but is also his ...

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 foun… ...

Torah portion: Time flies. Parashat Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22-1) By Rabbi Lisa Edwards Published June 25, 2014 [additional-authors] Rabbi Lisa Edwards June 25 ...

This week’s Torah portion, Parshat Chukat, marks the beginning of the end of the longest family road trip in history, as the Children of Israel “encamped in the steppes of Moav, across the ...

©Rabbi Mordecai Finley. Our Torah portion, Emor, has the most detailed list in the Torah of the Jewish Festivals and other Holy Days. This Torah portion gives us the opportunity not only to study ...

Rabbi Lance J. Sussman This week’s Torah portion is Korach: Numbers 16:1 - 18:32 In 1982, my father, Charles Sussman, retired. He was only 57 years... Rabbi Daniel Braune-Friedman This week’s Torah ...

Do you believe, or don’t you? When someone asks whether you are a “believer” in God, in Torah, in revelation, it is often a trap — whether intended that way or not. The question presumes ...

The Torah commands every able-bodied male to fight in Israel’s wars. In fact, we have already gleaned from Bamidbar/Numbers 1:1-3 that any male who has not served in the military is simply not ...