by Rabbi Jeffrey S. FoxPosted on July 6, 2017
by Rabbi Dr. Tsvi BlanchardPosted on November 29, 2016
by Dr. Shalom HoltzPosted on November 1, 2016
by Rabbi Dov LinzerPosted on October 31, 2016
“Why,” asks Rashi, in his first comment on the Torah, “did the Torah not start with the verse, ‘This month is for you the first of months,’ (Shemot 12:2), the first mitzvah in the Torah given to the children of Israel?” If the purpose of the Torah is to tell us the mitzvot and Continue Reading »
by Rabbi Avi WeissPosted on October 26, 2016
by Dr. Yonatan GrossmanPosted on October 21, 2016
by Rabbi Avi WeissPosted on May 25, 2016
While some maintain that the human being is only physical form, the Torah, in one of its most important sentences, insists that every person is also created in the image of God – tzelem Elokim (Genesis 1:26,27). On the surface we see each others’ outward appearance, but if we look deeply, we ought to be Continue Reading »
by Rabbi Dov LinzerPosted on October 8, 2015
When the world was freshly minted and created, we heard the refrain with each act of creation, “And God saw that it was good,” and that the world as a whole was “exceedingly good.” Then, humans came and made a mess of everything, and a different refrain is heard: And God saw “massive was the evil of Continue Reading »
by Rabbi Dov LinzerPosted on October 28, 2011
It is just a few hundred years since the world has been created, and everything has gone to pot. When the world was freshly minted and created, we heard the refrain with each act of creation, “And God saw that it was good,” and that the world as a whole was “exceedingly good.” Now, humans Continue Reading »
