Explore the Lesson of the Ram in this week's Torah portion. Understand the deep meanings behind Shabbat preparations and rest.

Explore the essence of Lech-Lecha in this Torah commentary as Abraham embarks on a profound spiritual journey.

The progression of leadership in Genesis indicates God wants leaders who don’t just “follow orders” but who evaluate and even ...

How sad that the nature of created mankind, with the ability to either trust and obey God or to disobey Him, inevitably led ...

In Bereshis Rabbah 50:10, the end picture is revealed as in fact, the Moshiach is born from this illicit relationship. From ...

The dramatic and emotionally powerful haftara of Parshat Vayera tells the story of a barren Shunamite woman who performs the ...

The Torah is filled with hundreds of commandments — 613 to be precise. But the very first commandment, to be fruitful and multiply, is arguably the most important. For without this basic and ...

Why does the Torah begin with the Genesis story? If it is a book of Law, ask the rabbis, why not start with the first commandment? On an individual level, perhaps it teaches us that just as God first ...

They were young Israeli men and women. Held in captivity by savage terrorists, one would expect them to question the ways of ...

As Jews we learn to live with the contradictions that sometimes haunt us. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Everyone has at least a few creation stories: how they were born, how they came to the career ...