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 ...

Purim’s costumes hold a deeper lesson—seeing beyond disguises to the true essence of people, just as in the Megillah.

As in all things, when we read a pas-sage presented to us in the Lectionary from the holy Gospel, we need to place it into ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian ...

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