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Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the ...
This week’s Torah portion is a story of forgiveness and the opportunity to make things right. The opening sentence tells it ...
It was the Torah portion read worldwide the day before Super Bowl Sunday. And then, as if the heavens were scripting the weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles trounced the Kansas City Chiefs ...
The weekly Torah portion of “Teruma” comes after the Torah has been given at Sinai and after the portion of “Mishpatim,” the first exposure to the legal system we will come to call Halacha.
The Romans named the seventh day Saturday, based on the Roman god Saturn. The word means “enough.” Saturn’s reign was ...
The ending of the Book of Exodus teaches that true freedom comes when we are neither the puppets of fellow humans or God but live a life where we improve ourselves, be all we can be, and help other ...
Hearing the Silent Aleph -   Vayakhel   ©️Rabbi Mordecai Finley, 2025 This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of ...
A new book by Hagai Maximov, "The Parsha and Holidays in Rhyme," offers rhymes on the weekly Torah portion alongside an easy interpretation for the whole family - and a moving message of ...
It takes creativity to embrace an invisible God. It takes strength to worship a God who exists, who lives, but who does not ...
In moving gesture, handwriting of murdered Nahal Oz lookout Sgt. Yael Leibushor turned into font adorning new book on the weekly Torah portion.