Dvar Torah for Shabbat by Israel's first Asheknazi Chief Rabbi, Torah Luminary and iconic leader of Religious Zionism.
Sacntifying G-d's Name and desecrating His Name are sometimes a hairsbreadth apart.
I perceive elements out there that can do the job of encouraging Jews to return home much more efficiently, effectively, and quickly than I.
Prohibition banning a kohen to become defiled by the dead shows the truth of eternity & that death's impurity will one day cease to exist.
We are the only people who can live in a shack with leaves as a roof and feel surrounded by clouds of glory. We cam live with uncertainty.
A second Passover? We just celebrated Pesach a month ago and many of us never heard of a Second Pesach - a special kind of second chance.
In the world before the onset of Covid-19, the entitled would sometimes proclaim the only rule is that there are no rules. Not anymore.
This Shabbat we read EMOR. Leviticus 21:1–24:23, in which we learn of the different ways Hashem spoke to His people..
The postmodern radical progressive has vigorously emptied G-d from his life and seems to worship a cult of Death. Opinion.
Psalm 126, wrote Rabbi Kook, shows the uniqueness of Eretz Yisrael in giving us the ability to unite means to a goal and its ends.
The Talmud tells us that the fulfilment of a mitzvah must never threaten human life. Thus, the Torah forbade gatherings during the lockdown.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
Albert Einstein remarked, "I am sorry I was born a Jew… because it deprived me of the privilege of choosing to be a Jew."
During the past “Covid weeks” a phrase from the Tachanun sums up our current state: 'We do not know what we can do.'
The mitzvot of “Love your fellow as yourself” and “Do not hate your brother” are the basis of human relations, as well as relations with God
Included in the tragedy of the deaths of the 2 older sons of Aaron is the response of the two younger sons who have to rise to the occasion
Unusually, the haftarah of the first of the two parshiyot of the week was read instead of that of the second
“Love” and “respect” may not always overlap.
History is full of events which in retrospect, with the benefit of historical hindsight, fit in with G-d’s design for Israel’s redemption
We celebrate 2 occasions: The state's birthday and God's gift to us to be able to participate in and appreciate the miracle we are living
Insights into Judaism series: Why there are mourning customs during the Omer counting period between Passover and Shavuot.
Covenant and Conversation: Finding faith in the parsha.
“And of Zion, it will be said: this person and the one who was born in her.” (Psalms 87:5)
