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 ...

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 ...

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.

In the Blessings found in the the beginning of our Parsha there seems to be an apparent tautology. In pasuk 5 we have וישבתם לבטח בארצכם – and you shall dwell in security in your land. Ohr Hachaim ...

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 ...

Good people are rewarded, and evil people are punished. In the words of the Torah: “If you keep my commandments…then I will give your rains in their season…but ...

The Torah proclaims that a house in a walled city may be sold in perpetuity, but the owner has the right of repurchase during the first year of the sale (Leviticus 25:29, 30). Interestingly, the word ...

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 ...

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It was a huge week for world news: Robert Mueller celebrated an eerie last day of school, Israel made plans to hold a Groundhog Day-style election, and in the biggest upset, Guy Ritchie revealed ...