by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on January 7, 2021
With the opening of the book of Shemot, we transition from Bereshit, the story of the family, to Shemot, the story of the nation. It is a shift in the meaning of “Bnei Yisrael,” from “the children of the man named Yisrael (Yaakov),” to “The Nation of Israel (the Israelites).”…
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on December 17, 2020
Our clothes are closely connected to our body and our identity. They have the power to disguise who we are, represent who we are, and even shape who we are. Clothing plays an important role in this week’s parsha and in the prior ones as well.…
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on November 19, 2020
Are you a seeker or a dweller? Scholars of religion have noted that religious people can be categorized as either seekers or dwellers. Seekers are the ones who are looking for G-d, meaning, and truth. They wonder about how religion’s messages and teachings can play out in their lives, and they look to bring a religious ethos into the world.…
by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Posted on September 15, 2020
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by Dr. Yael Ziegler
Posted on September 11, 2020
To follow along with the shiur’s source sheet on Sefaria, please click here.…
by Dr. Shalom Holtz
Posted on September 11, 2020
To follow along with the shiur’s source sheet on Sefaria, please click here.…
by Dr. Yonatan Grossman
Posted on July 20, 2020
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by Dr. Yael Landman Wermuth
Posted on July 20, 2020
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by Dr. Daniel Rynhold
Posted on April 17, 2019
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by Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Mirsky
Posted on April 17, 2019
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by Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Posted on August 2, 2017
Click here to read Rabbi Asher Lopatin’s article “Five Pillars of Orthodox Judaism or Open Charedism” originally published in Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations & Future of Jewish Belief.…
by Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Posted on January 3, 2017
Modern Orthodoxy as it developed in 20th-century America was dynamic, vibrant, challenging, and filled with new insights into Judaism. This was made possible not by taking in the values of modernity wholesale but by maintaining a positive attitude toward those values and not opposing them merely because they were foreign.…