This week the IRS announced it would no longer apply the Johnson Amendment to houses of worship. This means that synagogues ...

Bilaam’s blessings included prophecies about Moshiach ... We are taught repeatedly that the Torah shuns negative words and ...

In Parshat Balak, Bilaam never saw the people he was meant to curse. He viewed them from a distance; abstractly, impersonally. His words came not from relationship, but rather from obligation, from po ...

Rav Huna requires blessings only for the study of Mikra (written Torah), while Rabbi Elazar extends this to include Midrash.

Author Mark Gerson, whose new book is "God Was Right," reveals the important blessing of grandparenthood from the Bible and shares how Jewish families embrace their faith.

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 ...

The Torah provides an ancient, fifteen-word formula for blessing. It is known as the Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim in Hebrew). Its English translation is as follows: ...

And in that wrestling, receive the blessings of true peace and reconciliation. Our Torah shows us it is possible Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit serves as rabbi at Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia.

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).