In this week’s parsha, following a brief overview of the blessings we will merit if we observe the mitzvot, the Torah describes what God has in store for the Jewish people should they diverge from the ...

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 ...

Through what merit is the Jewish people saved? One answer is presented in Parshat Bechukotai. Within the context of the tochacha, a long tragic list of curses which God forbid might befall the Jewish ...

Parshat Bechukotai opens with a powerful promise: “If you walk in My statutes… I will give your rains in their season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees shall yield their fruit.” This ...

Rabbi Marc Philippe received smicha from Yeshiva Toras Israel in Jerusalem, also known as Diaspora Yeshiva. He has been a citizen of the world since childhood, having grown up on four continents.

Unfortunately, we tend to give less attention to those laws of the Torah about things we no longer practice. Among them are the laws about making a donation equivalent to a person’s worth (arakhim), ...

This week’s Parshah, Parshat Behar, begins with the command for the Mitzvah of Shemittah, the obligation to let the land rest every seventh year-the Torah states [Vayikra 25’ 1’-2’]: Hashem spoke to ...

The 75 th anniversary of D-Day will be commemorated on June 6, 2019. Looking back we can identify it as one of the turning points in World War II as the Nazis suffered an irreversible defeat. But ...

Every seventh year, the Torah tells us in Parshat Behar, is the Shemittah (sabbatical year). During this period of time, every seventh year, the land in Israel must remain fallow – working the ground ...