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

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.

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 ...

George and Teddy Kunhardt made the documentary “Becoming Katharine Graham” for the same reason most people make documentaries: to tell a story they thought people should know. As publisher 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 ...

A collection of commentaries on our Sages' question: ’’THEY shall make an Ark’’- in plural, unlike the other utensils, which they are also commanded to make, but where the command is in ...

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 ...

Parshat Terumah: Exodus 25:1-27:19; Numbers 28:9-15; Exodus 30:11-16; II King 12: 1-17. Exactly as I show you … so shall you make it.” Found at the beginning of this week’s parshah, this ...

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 ...

Here, Rashi enlightens us with his wonderful and surprising commentary on the words ... After all, the Torah itself attributes the act of division to Moses, yet Rashi reveals that an angel ...

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