The first Mitzvah that the Almighty singles out for reward in our Parsha is Torah study.[1] But we aren’t rewarded for studying Torah. We are rewarded for laboring over the Torah. It has been pointed ...

The Torah is the very foundation of the Jewish people, and from the day Moses brought down the 10 Commandments from Mount Sinai, the study of the Torah has been an integral aspect of our national ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton of the Or Haneshama congregation in Ottowa, Canada. Rabbi Bolton was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1996. After serving as ...

At first glance, this verse is not true. The theology that suggests following God’s commandments will be rewarded, while disobeying them will be punished, has been rejected by most of us. We all know ...

Every generation of Jews since the destruction of the Second Temple has anticipated the arrival of the Messiah, who would usher in a new age and build the Third Temple. It is an article of Jewish ...

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Zacharia Wallerstein gazed out the window of his seventh-grade classroom window and watched, fascinated, as a handful of butterflies flitted in the warm, summer air. Turning his attention back to his ...

The Torah proclaims that a house in a walled city may be sold in perpetuity, but the owner has the right of repurchase during the first year of the sale (Leviticus 25:29, 30). Interestingly, the word ...

Parashat Behar-Bechukotai: Humility as a condition for Torah Every seventh year, farmers in the Land of Israel must let their fields lie fallow and surrender the harvest to society – Jews and non-Jews ...