Families are invited to discuss a set of questions at the Shabbos table this week to deepen engagement with Parshat Chayei Sarah. The activity is intended for this Shabbos while reading the parsha and ...

The dramatic and emotionally powerful haftara of Parshat Vayera tells the story of a barren Shunamite woman who performs the kindness of welcoming the prophet Elisha into her home. When Elisha asks ...

Noach was a tenth-generation descendant of Adam Harishon. And he and his family were the only descendants of Adam to not suffer the terrible fate of those who lived during the time of the flood. He is ...

Pirkei Avot 5:1: By ten divine utterances [ma'amarot] was the world created. The expression "utterances/ma'amarot" implies that Hashem made His voice heard. How does ...

One may wonder why Parshat Tetzave starts at the end of Perek כז, with the oil for the Menora, which was already mentioned in the beginning of Teruma (שמן למאור) it would probably make more sense to ...

A Chassidic story is told about a student who once asked his Rebbe, “Why is it that when I light a candle in a dark room, the darkness disappears instantly, but when I try to bring kindness into a ...

Aaron must burn incense on it when he kindles the wicks of the lamps in the afternoon—a continual offering of incense before God throughout your generations. ~ Exodus 30:8 and the other towards the ...

This is the only parasha since Moshe’s birth where his name is not mentioned. The primary reason given is a kind of ‘good cop-bad cop’ dialogue. In the episode of the Golden Calf, when G-d threatened ...

From the mists of antiquity there comes a tale. The tale is of a Persian king who inherited some special garments. The king is one that Jewish tradition names Achashverosh. The garments were none ...

According to Jewish mysticism, when God divided dark from light during creation, light could be seen from one end of the world to the other. The mystics also proposed that God hid some of this initial ...

When did “clothes make the man” come into our vocabulary and/or belief system? Popular explanations attribute the expression to Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the pen name of Mark Twain. But that is ...