The commentary on each parashah (from the Hebrew for "portion") addresses a social justice topic, ranging from voting rights and slavery reparations to reproductive choice and mass incarceration.

The story of Balaam and his talking donkey is a major problem for serious theologians and scholars of the Bible. If you are ...

Each Torah portion includes a line-by-line analysis, with Shoff sometimes bringing in multiple sources to provide insights.

Opening the books from the right side are the Biblical Hebrew text and the Hebrew commentary of Rashi (1040-1105), the new much improved translation of the Torah portion by the late Rabbi Lord ...

Now that we finally have women’s voices weighing in on Torah with powerful, fresh interpretations, men are yanking the spotlight back in this modern guise of tit-for-tat — a men’s commentary.

Where does this leave us? Is co-creating a book of Torah commentary through the technology of ChatGPT’s AI an authentic exercise of midrash? Is it less real than the imaginative work of human sages?

Illustration: "Thou shall not muzzle the ox...." Public Domain For me personally, this is an important Torah portion for two reasons: 1) It clearly shows that the rabbinical ruling asserting ...

The decision to use the new commentary comes at a time of growing interest in Torah study, especially the study of traditional commentators, according to Holzman.

However, the new book will be the first “classical” women’s commentary, according to Eskenazi, meaning that it will cover individual Torah portions in their entirety.

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 commentary on each parashah (from the Hebrew for "portion") addresses a social justice topic, ranging from voting rights and slavery reparations to reproductive choice and mass incarceration.