In this week’s portion, we read about the only woman mentioned by name in the book of Leviticus, Shelomit bat Divri from the tribe of...

In just about an hour, Israelis around the nation will rise and stand at attention as they hear the minute-long blast of the siren...

Parashat Kedoshim opens with the commandment kedoshim te’hiyu ki kadosh ani - you shall be holy for I (God) am holy. God, we read, is...

This week’s Torah portion Achrei Mot presents a timeless question: how are we as Jews meant to differentiate ourselves from the nations...

This week we take a step away from our yearly, chronological journey through the Torah. We are in the midst of the period we call chol...

Passover is probably my favorite holiday. I love the foods, the songs, the idea that the greatest meals are accompanied by a wonderful...

As we learned in last week’s portion, the Torah commands that any person infected with tza’raat is isolated from the community until the...

The focus of this portion is on a particular skin disease - tza’raat in Hebrew, often mistranslated to leprosy. The Torah will dedicate...

So many of us have had reason to mourn over the past six plus months. The loss of life, our sense of security, friends who we found out...

For many years, the book of Leviticus to me seemed to be an impenetrable mystery. What could possibly be the connection between this...

Parashat Vayikra marks the beginning of a new book, the third in the Torah. The book of Leviticus - VaYikra in Hebrew - is composed...

In Parashat Pekudei, B’nei Yisrael completed the construction of the Mishkan, the portable tabernacle that will serve as God’s home on...

B’nei Yisrael, in Parashat Vayakhel , are in the midst of the process of constructing the mishkan , the Tabernacle that will travel them...

At the bottom of Mount Sinai, the Isralites set up camp and bid farewell to Moses as he ascended the mountain to receive the Torah....

Much like last week’s portion, Tetzaveh deals primarily with the operation of the mishkan, God’s dwelling place on Earth among the...

Parashat Terumah is made up almost entirely of instructions on how the Israelites were to build the tabernacle - a holy place to worship...

In last week’s portion, the Israelites received the first ten mitzvot - commandments. But ten rules are not sufficient to build a...

For the first time in the book of Exodus, in Parashat Yitro the Egyptians do not play a major role in our story. Egypt and slavery is...

Finally, finally - after generations of slavery and hardship, after being mistreated as strangers in a strange land for too many years,...

John Martin, 1823. Then GOD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I...