Jewish life has evolved into a kaleidoscope of concepts, values, commentaries, hopes, halakhic decisions, conflicts, etc., ...

The haftarah for Parshat Yitro recounts the call to prophecy of Yeshayahu, a moment of initial contact with the Divine that ...

The Torah explicates how the high priest undertakes the task of declaring someone a metzora (a person afflicted with a rare skin disease): “And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the ...

Why is it that God killed all the firstborns in Egypt and didn't suffice with simply killing Pharaoh’s firstborn son? The ...

As a child, I attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. Every day at morning services, I was mesmerized by an older man named Rabbi Chaim Gelb. I can still remember Reb Chaim calling out “Amen.” Sometimes he’d ...

This same idea appears later in the parsha. After Krias Yam Suf, Bnei Yisrael arrive at Marah and discover that the water is ...

Photo provided by Magdalena Sommer; Oct. 2023; Warsaw. Less than a week after the most heinous terror assault in Israel’s history, Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael ...

After repeatedly denouncing and prohibiting the creation of statues, portrayals of the human form, or anything resembling idols—on pain of death—God issues an unusual command. In the construction of ...

Israel's Chief Rabbi David Yosef spent a full week in South Florida, visiting the LEC school, testing bochurim on smicha and ...

This parsha is named after Pinchas, son of the High Priest Eleazar, turned zealot for G-d, taking the initiative to save Israel from a horrific plague that takes 24,000 lives. Seduced by the women of ...

Why did Yosef tell his brothers to bring his father down to Egypt? We know that leaving the land of Israel was not something taken lightly by the forefathers. It was done in times of famine and only ...

It happens every year. The b.mitzvah student comes into my office to discuss their Torah portion. “Rabbi,” they ask, confused and perplexed, “why does the Torah spend so much time discussing skin ...