One can see in Seudat Yitro, celebrated by Tunisian Jews on the Thursday before Shabbat Parashat Yitro, an invitation to ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...

There are moments in the Torah that arrive with thunder. Plagues. Pillars of fire. Seas that split. And then there are ...

“When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this ‘Torah’ written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it remain with him and let him read it all his life, so that he ...

Almost at the very end of the Mishneh Torah, in Laws of Kings and their Wars 11:4 (a passage censored out of most European editions of the Mishneh Torah), the Rambam (Maimonides) describes the tasks ...

The parashah opens with a command that honestly doesn’t sound comforting at all: בֹּא אֶל־פַּרְעֹה — Bo el-Paró. It doesn’t ...

There are many things in our world that we humans feel are not in our control. I often hear about the “market” deciding what to do, even though the stock market is an entity we created and we control.

Jews revere the Torah as a central part of our religion. The word “Torah” is from the same Hebrew “root” word as the word for teacher. Torah is the teaching from God that we try to use to direct our ...

When you see homo sapiens, you see the divine image. I am a Jewish human being. Human being, homo sapiens, is the broad definition I share with 8 billion people on earth. Jewish is the specific ...