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 ...

In this week’s parsha, following a brief overview of the blessings we will merit if we observe the mitzvot, the Torah describes what God has in store for the Jewish people should they diverge from the ...

Rabbi Marc Philippe received smicha from Yeshiva Toras Israel in Jerusalem, also known as Diaspora Yeshiva. He has been a citizen of the world since childhood, having grown up on four continents.

Parshat Bechukotai opens with a powerful promise: “If you walk in My statutes… I will give your rains in their season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees shall yield their fruit.” This ...

Unfortunately, we tend to give less attention to those laws of the Torah about things we no longer practice. Among them are the laws about making a donation equivalent to a person’s worth (arakhim), ...

Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Branderדוברות כנס שדרות. Parshat Bechukotai opens with a powerful promise: “If you walk in My statutes… I will give your rains in their season, the land shall yield its produce, and ...

The 75 th anniversary of D-Day will be commemorated on June 6, 2019. Looking back we can identify it as one of the turning points in World War II as the Nazis suffered an irreversible defeat. But ...

This week’s Parshah, Parshat Behar, begins with the command for the Mitzvah of Shemittah, the obligation to let the land rest every seventh year-the Torah states [Vayikra 25’ 1’-2’]: Hashem spoke 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 ...