Parshat Kedoshim: All of Torah on one foot?
Why does Rabbi Akiva call it a "Big Rule", and not an "Important Mitzvah"...? What is 'Love your fellow as you love yourself' all about?
Weekly Torah Study: Kedoshim (Israel)
What does it mean to be holy?
Judaism (Page 61)
Are you an enemy of evil? A guide to conducting one's life
Six essential facts that make the Holocaust a unique event in history and ten messages from a survivor.
Flux, Confusion, War – where are we headed?
Relationships between nations and races are shifting, so-called absolute laws of human behavior are being re-written, the East is rising.
Memorializing the Holocaust in Israel in contrast to Europe
The two different dates indicate two different ways of looking at the Holocaust and the people the Nazis hoped to destroy.
Kedoshim: In Eretz Yisrael, the means are as worthy as the ends
Young Religious Zionist Torah scholars on the Parasha: In Eretz Yisrael we feel the joy and the sense that nothing is lacking in our lives.
Acharei Mot (Diaspora): Why we are needed
We often ask for the things we need, but life is much happier, satisfying, and meaningful, when we ask what we are needed for.
Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Epistle on Repentance
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Kedoshim (Israel): Watch out for bias when giving advice
This week Israel reads Kedoshim and the Diaspora reads Acharei Mot. Arutz Sheva will alternate articles on both readings.
Dawn of Redemption
Rabbi Kook: Be strong...concerning the holy ways that our sacred ancestors and rabbis taught us...add to this a connection to the Holy Land.
Being nice to terrorists
Are Jews supposed to see everyone in a positive light?
Don't lock the door - maybe someone will come
The real significance of the Mimouna holiday is the door open to all who wish to enter.
Yizkor, on the last day of Passover
This soulful prayer resonates acutely 4 times a year in Ashkenaz services, bringing even the non-observant to synagogue. A personal story.
Truth is G-d’s Signature
This is the land promised to us. But we must believe it before we can tell the world. It is why we celebrate Passover!
Israel's first Chief Rabbi:
Matza of love
Israel's first chief rabbi: In the Torah, the Jews were told to eat matza two weeks before Pesach, so what is the real reason we eat matza?
Temple Mount, now and then
On the 4th day of Pesach 1,974 years ago a Roman soldier sparked a Jewish revolt. It took 7 years to defeat Jerusalem then. And now?
Talking Parsha - Acharei Mot: Do we always have to be different?
This week's Torah portion instructs us not to imitate the nations around us. Why is that? What is behind this concept?
Passover: Unity in the wake of controversy
Tzohar's Rabbi David Stav speaks to Arutz Sheva about the messages of Passover in the wake of current events and issues.
The blessing for eating Chametz on Pesach
I always wondered what God was doing during the Seder at Bergen-Belsen when the Chief Rabbi of Rotterdam instructed Jews to eat chametz.
Weekly Torah Study: Acharei Mot
What are we "moderns" to make of the scapegoat to Azazel?
The Secret of Pesach
*Rabbi Jonathan Sacks* reminds us of the great secret of the holiday of Pesach: It's all about the children.
The Mimouna provides us with hope - and that is its goal
We need to renew our inner strength in this period of terror attacks. That is exactly what the Mimouna's message of joy and hope will do.
Omer conundrums
All you have to do is count until Shavuot, but it is not as simple as it seems.
Rabbi Haggai Londin:
'Passover is a time of order - in soul and in spirit'
Rabbi Haggai Londin, of the Sderot Yeshiva, speaks to Arutz Sheva about the essence of the Festival of Passover.
4 facts concerning Sefirat HaOmer (counting the Omer)
This is not just a technical counting. In order to receive the Torah, each year, we need to prepare.
Now that Pesach has finished-yes you read this correctly
Pesach on the 14th of Nissan and the Festival of Matzot which begins on the 15th and lasts for seven days are two separate Festivals
Easter and the Jews
Rabbi Kook blamed Christianity's teachings for the Great War and its appalling cruelty and death, but did not advocate combatting it.
Parent Principles: An introduction
Moses received the Torah from Sinai, and gave it to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets.
A Tale of Two Cities – two worlds
Excerpt from the writer's book "With all your might." Two families, two Seders, one nation.
In every generation: Insights from around the Seder table
There are two and only two places where the Haggadah uses the expression, “in every generation.” What is the connection between them?
Why did God need a 'destroyer' in Egypt?
Who or what was the "destroyer" mentioned in the book of Exodus?
Passover: The Hillel Sandwich
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: If we know the significance of matza and maror, we will understand Hillel's way of eating them.
An educational Passover Seder: Four problems Four solutions
What is this obsession with the number four at the Seder? It tells you how to deal with yourself and others.
Talking Parsha - Pesach: Should we question everything?
Seder Night is all about asking questions. But is it really that important to ask questions? Why do we ask so many questions?
One kid, two zuzim and much symbolism
Delving into interpretations of Chad Gadya, the last song in the Haggada, among them the Vilna Gaon's perspective.
Advice for the Wise Son
Focus on the wise son's question and possible answers that point to the experiential aspects of Torah observance.
Pesach and Eretz Yisrael
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars: Is there a substantive connection between the mitzva of Pesacḥ and Eretz Yisrael?
Office of the UK Chief Rabbi
Pesach: Are you thirsty without knowing it?
How do you enable a person to come and partake of the Pesach experience if they have no desire; if they feel no need, no thirst?
Chametz as a symbol of arrogance
Turning our attention to the deeper and spiritual meaning of removing Chametz. It is not just ridding our homes of Cheerios and breadcrumbs.
When the Seder is on Friday night
How to manage a Seder on Shabbat - and a primer for the holiday.
'Matza and maror before them' – Halakhically mandated props
Seder night is reliving a great story, becoming part of the night it all started. Read here about its meaning and foundations of our faith.
Practical Pesach pointers II: Shopping companion
All food needs a kosher for Passover certification, but there are things that do not. A helpful list.
Weekly Tanya video/lecture: The Epistle on Repentance
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
The 4 Sons—and the 4 big questions on Judaism
The rational child, the depressed child, the selfish child, and the apathetic child.
What Pesach mitzva did the Brisker Rav find the most difficult?
A wondrous midrash provides a clarification and way of looking at a difficult mitzva that we must observe on Pesach but all year as well.
Ceremony and Celebration: Inspiration for Pesach
Rabbi Sacks accompanies your Seder and the entire holiday in this choice of his unforgettable thoughts.
The Ishmaelites are living up to their name: Are we?
When you think of man, what comes to mind? How would you frame man? How would you label the first human, Adam HaRishon?
Practical Pesach Pointers I – 5782/2022
How to clean for Pesach, perform the search for leaven the night before the Seder, burn the chametz, and choose your matzot.
Pesach I: Tracing the theme of the Haggadah
When both the beginning and end of a work refer to the same idea, it is the recurring theme throughout. Learn the Haggadah's structure.
Kosher and Happy
Going out of exile requires joy. Depression and lack of life and enthusiasm are also characteristics of exile.
The Revolution of all Revolutions
The Exodus from Egypt constitutes a revolution in the concept of reality.
Their names were Tomer, Eitam and Barak
In their memory
Israel's first Chief Rabbi:
Metzora: The Power of Speech
Israel's firrst Chief Rabbi and iconic leader of religious Zionism: Why do only Jews get tzora'at? What are the two levels of speech?
Metzora: Will Smith
What is the worst part of this tale, that it happened or that we have talked so much about it?
Weekly Torah Study: Metzora - imagine an infected house
Imagine a disease that looks like mildew on the walls of your home, but is of real concern.
"Tevel” – the Land of Israel is affected by everything
Young Israeli Torah scholars: Rabbi Kook z”tl writes that wars raging anywhere in the world influence Am Yisrael.
Talking Parsha - Metzorah: How's your house feeling?
In this week's Torah portion we read about leprosy of a home and of clothing. Why would an inanimate object have a spiritual disease?
Metzora: The malady that brings healing
The corruption of a soul that separates one from his holy essence and his people results in the spiritual eruption of Tzaraat and exile.
Shabbat Ha-Gadol: Redemption then, redemption now
Shabbat ha-Gadol, “the Great Shabbat” before Pesach, commemorates our final Shabbat in Egypt, 3,334 years ago, five days before the Exodus.
Sensitivity of Language and Land
To speak poorly about the Land of Israel is to lose sight of an essential part of what make us special. That, too, is lashon hara.
