At the end of his life, having given the Israelites at G-d’s behest 612 commands, Moses is instructed to give them one last command – number 613: Now, therefore, write down for yourselves this song, ...

Yesterday, Janice Steinberg wrote about Yiddish inflected English and the audiobook version of her novel, “The Tin Horse.” Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book ...

When we were kids growing up in a suburb of Boston, my brother Richie and I looked forward to competing with each other on an unusual level. It was with the song our father sang at our yom tov meals, ...

Matisyahu dished a little Torah and song during a workshop at Jewlicious, but most of what he shared connected music with God. LONG BEACH, Calif. (JTA) – By the time Matisyahu loped onstage for what ...

On Sunday, I spent the day at the baseball field, watching my sons enjoy their favorite sport. At my older son’s game, the opposing team used an application that called out each player’s name. And ...

Geula Twersky is the author of “Song of Riddles: Deciphering the Song of Songs” and “Torah Song: The Theological Role of Torah Poetry”. Geula is also an award winning Judaic fine artist – visit ...

In one of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook’s most famous poems, “The Four-Fold Song,” he speaks about four dimensions of our soul’s song — as an individual, as part of a nation, as part of humanity, and as ...

In Memory of our beloved David Schwartz, who fell in battle sanctifying God’s name, on 27 Tevet, 5784 (8 January 2024). “Le’David Barchi Nafshi” is a compilation of essays written on the weekly Torah ...

Let me the set the scene for you: It’s the final hours of Moses’ life and after five epical books, it’s time to wrap it up; make the quintessential points that will capture the essence and function of ...

A careful reading truly shows that it is not the “sanctity of the Torah” that serves as a guarantee of its fulfillment but the “Song of the Tor ...