Hearing the Silent Aleph -   Vayakhel   ©️Rabbi Mordecai Finley, 2025 This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of ...

The weekly Torah portion of “Teruma” comes after the ... One of the major questions that arises in the commentaries around the Tabernacle is whether the physical space with its opulence ...

Critics of our people point to the stiff-necked, weak-willed character of our forebears. At the time, perhaps it was an ...

The ninth weekly biblical reading in Exodus, Ki Tissa (30:11-34:35), tells us significant details about God, the Torah, and the Shabbat, revealing deep meaning and significance that should affect our ...

As modern Jews, our sacred task is to meaningfully investigate how to interpret and construct the Torah’s dictates in our time. If we accept this as our responsibility, we might ask how we ...

This week we read the Torah portion of Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1–24:18), where we find an extensive set of laws governing civil interactions that we can relate to just as much today as ever ...

Rishon is working on the first part of the commentary, on the Book of Genesis, which he aims to self-publish by Hanukkah. A draft of the chapter on Genesis’ first Torah portion shared with the ...