by Rabbi Jeffrey S. Fox Posted on July 6, 2017
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by Rabbi Dr. Tsvi Blanchard Posted on November 29, 2016
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by Dr. Shalom Holtz Posted on November 1, 2016
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by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted 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?”…
by Rabbi Avi Weiss Posted on October 26, 2016
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by Dr. Yonatan Grossman Posted on October 21, 2016
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by Rabbi Avi Weiss
Posted 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 able to perceive a little bit of God in our fellow human being.…
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted 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 man on the earth, and all the thoughts of his heart were only evil the entire day” (Bereishit 6:5).…
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted 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.”…
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