Eikev means a heel and "as a result of" - and the two are connected by God's admonition and promise of love. The views of commentators.
How can the nations of Canaan not behaving be the reason for the People of Israel conquering the land, if they are not behaving, either?
A holistic approach to Jewish education combines both home and schoool, one enhancing the other.
We understand the prayers that God grant children, sufficient rain and fertile animals, but why pray that the fruit of the Land be tasty?
Everything about Kriyat Shema seems wildly inconsistent and unrelated, so what is the theme that strings it all together?
Moshe presents, throughout his discourse, both sides of the coin.Unfortunately, over the ages, the Jews have not always chosen wisely.
There is plenty of room for individual expression in Judaism. Perhaps not in the days of our calendar, but in the choices of life.
Straightforward reading of Torah verses makes it clear where Jews are supposed to be, so why were we in Los Angeles?
Part three of The Changing of an Era. (Links to previous parts at the beginning of the article.) Note: "Gedolim" refers to Great Rabbis.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
We ask God where He is, but He is asking us the same question...
Rabbi Kook loved man but hated evil. In his thought, the IDF's recent achievements against terror have significance far beyond Gaza..
What Jewish sages said about astrology - and an added topic on paragraphing in the Torah scroll.
From consolation in the Haftarah to the news of shooting near the Old City, in one day.
Tu B”Av during the times of the Mishna was a Yom Tov that revolved around starting a family in Israel.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: What need was there for Rabbi Akiva to recite this final Shema?
In no way can one compare the conduct of the so-called secular Zionists to the huge transgressions of the Jews in the desert. And yet...
When Moshe began to speak his own words to his beloved people for the first time, how did he begin?
This week's Torah portion discusses not adding or subtracting from the commandments. What's wrong with adding?
Has modern man really stopped believing in powerful forces acting as gods?
Today we have Myoffice, Mydrive, my-everything, so why not MyShabbat?
This week's haftarah is not only a message of consolation; it is a major hashkafic (philosophic) treatise and more.
It is not your responsibility to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but you are not free to desist from it either – - Rabbi Tarfon,
Read an unbelievable story about Rav Maimon and the Rogatchover about claiming to be born in Eretz Yisrael.
This week, we have a lesson in woodwork - that isn't really about wood at all.
Healing occurs when one believes that there is yet a future ahead.
Words are not enough.When you ask me why, I do not have the words to answer, my friend.
Rashi expounds:’Fair and good’: compromising, acting beyond the strict demands of the law. What do other commentators say?
Surveys reveal that only about 15% of Diaspora Jews have visited Israel. To me, that’s embarrassing.
Why was the wording altered in Va'etchanan?
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
At readers' request below are memories of some of Rabbi Hutner's disciples.
The people of Israel are not afraid of the dawn; because light clarifies things. They seem alone, but G-d is with them.
This year the fast is on Sunday although the 9th of Av is on Shabbat. Here is how to keep the laws in this situation.
How can such a tragic day, on which five calamities occurred, culminating in the Destruction itself, be called a mo’ed?
Israel's first Chief Rabbi's prescient words: There are nations addicted to brute force and aggression and It becomes part of their pshyche.
We do not know exactly how the Redemption will come about and in what order things will occur, but let us be prepared!
The Torah wasn’t given to be kept in Sinai, nor in Brooklyn or Beverly Hills. The Torah isn’t a “religion” like Buddhism or Christianity,
We do not fast on Shabbat (except for Yom Kippur).This year the 9th of Av is on Shabbat, so we fast Sat. night and Sunday. A primer.
Who is talking in the book of Devarim - is it Moshe giving his own speech? Or did Hashem command Moshe to give this speech?
The power of derech eretz.- it is impossible to be rude, arrogant, rough and unpleasant while remaining a devoted servant of God.
Mourning and yearning for the house built for His people and eventually for the world.
Are there elements of fasting on Shabbat the 9th of Av even though it is forbidden to fast on Shabbat?
Moshe communicates a message to the generation in the desert and about to enter an unknown land, and he resonates on for eternity.
How a well-intentioned organization became an infamous bloc of nations that blames Israel for all the world's ills.
It is supremely appropriate that it is precisely during the Three Weeks that we meet up again and become re-united in our Torah-readings.
This month we are presented with a foretelling of destruction, but we are also told ”But this do I call to mind, therefore I have hope."
Inspiration and memory - would that we had the ability to come close to the level of the people written about below.
In these vignettes we learn from Rashi, Savta Rabbanit Bramson, Moshe Rabbeinu and the Farkash family in Monsey.
We mourn and fast, pray and beseech Hashem for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. But what will happen?
What is permitted, what is forbidden - when and why.
Weekly Torah study - Justice and atonement.
People say there is no mitzvah to make Aliya today, since the Rambam did not include it on his list of mitzahs.They need to delve deeper.
In all of Jewish literature, one would be hard-pressed to find a single statement glorifying self-esteem. Humility, however, is much lauded.
The Torah reading during the Three Weeks is not happenstance, but the map for a nation's journey to Redemption.
Jews cried because they "remembered Zion" - why didn't they remember the bloodshed and suffering inflicted on them instead?
The alleged corruption revealed in the past few days in Israel should remind us of Torah admonitions about conditions for retaining the land
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: We must counter baseless hatred, sinat chinam, with baseless love, ahavat chinam.
