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 ...

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.

This week's Torah portion, Parashat Tetzaveh ... Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook wrote a commentary on the Siddur and explained this blessing by saying that we are giving our thanks to God ...

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 ...

The Portion of Mishpatim is a treasure ... in every single thing we do. [1] See the commentaries of the Chizkuni and the Rosh on the Torah. This question is discussed fully in this link: https ...

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 ...

He devoted a significant portion of his time to communal ... Professor Schreiber himself was a great Torah scholar, as well as a professor at Columbia University. He published the entire commentary of ...

While hiddur mitzvah is interpreted as beautifying a commanded act with a sense of abundance, as usual, the Torah asks us to ...