The Torah relates that: (31:18)’When’ Hashem ‘finished speaking to him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two Tablets of ...

An acquaintance of mine was once on a cable car in South America when it suddenly became dark. He felt someone touching his head under his kippah. When the lights ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

Talyah Ginsberg is a writer, paralegal, and unapologetic Zionist living in Ra’anana. She documents the beautiful disaster of Israeli life with wit, grit, and just enough hope to stay functional. Her ...

The Torah reading this Shabbat, like a significant subset of Shabbatot throughout the year, contains two different facets. The first is the reading that is next in line within the ...

We think we know who the bad guys are in Parashat Ki Tisa. The Israelites panic. Moses has been gone too long. Forty days feels like forever. They want certainty, something tangible, something they ...

for most texts in the holy scroll ascribed to Moses, a leader for whom all the world would vote if lost paradise miraculously recompose. Unlike the tohu bohu shrunk by God was the death of Moses, aged ...