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

The title is apt. Again and again, Rabbi Steinmetz reminds his readers that life continues to go on, and, though changed forever, will eventually find a new equilibrium.

from twenty years of age and up, shall give the portion of Hashem ... Ibn Ezra comments:’The Torah mentioned the reason for ‘not increase’ nor ‘decrease’, because it is for an ...

One year later, during the weekend of that same Torah portion, Omer was finally released ... According to Chabad.org, Dvar Malchut contains 250 pages of Torah commentary from the Rambam, Rashi, and ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

This week’s Torah portion is a story of forgiveness and the opportunity to make things right. The opening sentence tells it ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Why Shema Blessings Are Different. Rabbi Heschel Greenberg has launched a new series of classes on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah in ...

Or, was it truly holy? In his Torah commentary called Meshekh Chokhma, the great scholar Rabbi Meir Simcha HaCohen of Dvinsk (Lithuania, 1843-1926) offers a profound explanation. He suggests ...

The scroll of Esther seems historic, not just allegoric. It says very clearly that Haman wanted to kill and exterminate all Jews. He got permission from the Persian King to order the slaughter of all ...