Torah MiZion

The Reed Sea split - for what?

Why did Hashem need to split the sea so dramatically after the Ten Plagues? Wasn't there another way?

What’s in a name?

How could the Jews returning from Babylonian exile change the names of the months to non-Hebrew ones?

Moshe – traitor or hero?

He had nothing to gain and everything to lose by turning on his benefactors, but he chose to be a hero of the Jewish people.

Vayigash: When being right is wrong

Yosef seemed to have allowed his emotions to overpower his judgement. Was this a failure of character?

Seeing the light on the path

There is light ahead. We have just celebrated the only Jiewish holiday whose mitzva is done at night. And it is all about light.

Torah MiTzion

Taking a long and deep breath

The story of Jacob's sojourn outside of Israel is written as one long story in the Torah, without division into smaller parshiyot.

To leave footprints on the sands of time, wear workshoes

Literally meaning a “heel”, the Hebrew word “eikev” evolved to denote a mark left by the heel, a foot-print - and more. All in Jacob's name.

Little things can make a big difference

Life is not made up of firework displays, but anyway, how much useful light do fireworks provide?

Which mitzva is more important? Man to man or man to G-d?

Can a tzaddik be righteous but not good?

Shlichut of a nation

Why was he Covenant with Abraham not made with Noah ten generations earlier?

To be Reborn - Shabbat Teshuvah and Yom Kippur

We must feel such a great rupture with the past when we repent, that it is as if we have no previous reality.

Rejoicing before G-d

Rejoicing before God is done intellectually and existentially – through prayer and Torah study.

'Acquiring' a wife?

The Tractate Kidushin begins with ownership of objects - hardly the definition of a wife!

Mitzvot and Mishpatim - A program for national spiritual growth

The transformation elicited by the mitzvot does not occur overnight.

Life is in the power of the tongue

Vows can be a way to a life full of sanctity.

Pinchas - Status/Change of status

Status. Change of status. Concepts familiar to us from social media. But we use those terms lightly, often for insignificant matters.

Balak - Who and what is the real antidote to Bilaam?

Bilaam represented a poisoned personality with intellectual skills.

Korach and company - and complaining again (Korach and Chukat)

The challenge to Moshe's authority is settled, so why are the Jews complaining again and what is really bothering them?

What Korach and the spies had in common

Divrei Torah for reading in Diaspora (Shlach) and Israel (Korach). Both speak about men who failed to live up to expectations.

Beha'alotcha - Thou Shalt Not Complain; Shlach - Check the land

Two divrei Torah for the two readings this week, one in the Diaspora and the other in Israel.

Measure for measure

One of the principles our Sages saw in G-d's modus operandi leads to an unusual interpretation.

Deep roots

When you uproot a tree, the deep roots which would not have been recognized otherwise, are revealed.

When deconstructing is reconstructing

Yaakov – A man of Emet

'We will not hide the synagogues in Germany'

Rabbi Eliezer Noy, CEO of Torah MiTzion in Germany, tells Arutz Sheva how the Jewish community deals with anti-Semitism.

Thoughts on the rereading of the 10 Commandments, Aseret Hadibrot

We are all individuals, but we all need somebody to lean on

Diaspora "settlers"

Torah MiTzion shlichim leave their secure religious Zionist environments in Israel to cope with challenges of a complex Diaspora reality.

Vayetze: The dream and the vow

The blessing of the shattered tablets

Nimrod and the pig farm - in the Land He gave to Israel

A month full of potential - The land He gave to mankind

Torah MiTzion Kollels: 20 years of Torah coming forth from Zion

CEO Ze'ev Schwartz on the worldwide Zionist kollel network he founded: 'Instead of links and computer files, we send real people.'

'Zionist Revolution' Celebrates 20 Years of Reaching World Jewry

The Torah M'Tzion organization has sent thousands to countries around the world to teach Zionism and Jewish values.