The first Mitzvah that the Almighty singles out for reward in our Parsha is Torah study.[1] But we aren’t rewarded for studying Torah. We are rewarded for laboring over the Torah. It has been pointed ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton of the Or Haneshama congregation in Ottowa, Canada. Rabbi Bolton was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1996. After serving as ...

The Torah is the very foundation of the Jewish people, and from the day Moses brought down the 10 Commandments from Mount Sinai, the study of the Torah has been an integral aspect of our national ...

At first glance, this verse is not true. The theology that suggests following God’s commandments will be rewarded, while disobeying them will be punished, has been rejected by most of us. We all know ...

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Every generation of Jews since the destruction of the Second Temple has anticipated the arrival of the Messiah, who would usher in a new age and build the Third Temple. It is an article of Jewish ...

Behar: “And you shall count for yourselves seven cycles of Sabbatical years , seven years, seven times… forty-nine years… you shall sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom throughout the land ...

“If you will walk in My statutes, and My commandments you will guard, and you shall do them; and I will give your rains in their season…” The Berdichever theorizes that it would have been simpler to ...

Every seventh year, the Torah tells us in Parshat Behar, is the Shemittah (sabbatical year). During this period of time, every seventh year, the land in Israel must remain fallow – working the ground ...