Author Mark Gerson, whose new book is "God Was Right," reveals how the Torah teaches a profound lesson highly relevant to today's keen understanding of "dress for success." ...

The parsha opens with: “This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites farewell before he died” (Deut. 33:1). FRESH EYES: Lifting a Torah scroll at Yeshiva ...

The power of blessings is greater than the power of curses and a parent’s blessing for their child has a particularly strong impact. The Torah prohibits cursing someone, wishing for their death ...

This blessing reflects a core Jewish truth: Torah has no continuity without chiddush — without renewal. Torah must be not only received but reimagined in each generation.

While most blessings are of rabbinical origin, there are two blessings that are derived directly from the Torah itself. They are Birkat HaMazon, recited after meals, and the blessing said before ...

The blessing that Jewish boys receive on Friday night was given in the Torah — but not by a father. It was given by a grandfather , Jacob (who is also known as Israel).

Together with these blessings, of course, come the warnings. Failure to observe Torah laws doesn’t just mean a lack of reward. It means that the world becomes a more dangerous, chaotic place.

This week's Torah portion presents the blessings and curses that follow from observance or defiance of the law. Some people understand this as a rigid system of reward and punishment. Keep the ...

Nine years ago, when his oldest grandchildren were 6 and 8, Joseph took out the Torah and decided he was ready to tell the story once more. As he says all this today, there is noise in the background.

Are the blessings and curses really polar opposites? Might they be opposite ends of the same continuum? At times the pain that we encounter in our lives is overwhelming and seems insurmountable ...

The Torah begins and ends with blessings. At the start of Parshat Lech Lecha, in God’s first communication with our patriarch Abraham, He bestows on him multiple blessings.

In this week’s Torah portion, Jacob is grappling with fear at the prospect of returning home to his parents’ house more than 20 years after he left. Last he heard, his father Isaac was dying, his twin ...