Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch:
Korach: Sleep on it
Moshe hoped Korach’s men would reconsider if given time to reflect.
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Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch:
Shelach: Jewish giants
The physical world may affect our spiritual nature more than we realize.
Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch:
Behaalotcha: Patience is a virtue
Our ancestors didn’t know their arrival and departure dates.
Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch:
Naso: Chinuch and chenek
Why are the Hebrew words for education and strangulation connected?
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch:
Bamidbar: She’s family
In Jewish law, a maidservant isn’t a lowly slave.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch:
Bechukotai: Is Jew-hatred immutable?
Hashem promised us three periods of exile – each one better than the next.
Israel's government needs roaring lions
The existing parties won’t save Israel. The country needs roaring lions, and it needs to find them. Here's how. Op-ed.
Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch:
Parshat Behar: Come home
Why did Yericho’s walls crumble to the ground?
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch:
Emor: Time to remember G-d
On Sukkot, both nature and man recede into the background.
Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch:
Parashat Kedoshim: How can you love someone like yourself?
The Torah doesn’t demand the impossible.
Rabbi Hirsch on the parsha: Put on your weekday clothes with care
Torah truth must permeate a person’s mundane life.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Sharing isn’t optional
Private property comes with responsibilities – to others.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Tzaraas isn’t leprosy
The laws of tzaraas are incomprehensible if we adopt the general translation.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: ‘Progress’ in Judaism
The Prophetic Books are not more “ethical” than the Pentateuch.
Should we have canceled Candace Owens?
Every statement she’s made regarding Israel can be explained without assuming anti-Semitism on her part. Opinion.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Do you care?
Animosity is often better than indifference.
Rabbi Hirsch on the parsha: Enmeshed in darkness
Why couldn’t the Jews erect the Mishkan at night?
Rabbi Hirsch on the parsha: Mirrors in the Mishkan
G-d wants us to sanctify the physical, not shun it.
Rav Samson R. Hirsch on the parsha: Want to be free?
The Torah enables us to rise above the natural order.
Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch on the parsha: Hold its feet
The Jewish lamb is happy, joyful, and virile – not meek.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: 6 and 1
The menorah teaches us how to live our lives.
Rabbi Hirsch on the parsha: Did rabbis make it up?
An unusual law in Parshas Mishpatim makes the case for the divine authorship of the Torah.
Rabbi Hirsch: Cardiac Jews, Orthopraxic Jews
Neither the heart nor the deed is sufficient. G-d wants both.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Year zero
We’re not supposed to start from scratch every generation.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Speak up!
Tell your children what you believe and why.
Rabbi Hirsch on the parsha: Religion isn’t a game
Pharaoh didn’t take Moshe seriously because he didn’t take his own religion seriously.
Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch on the parsha: The secret world of fish
Outsiders don’t see what happens beneath the surface.
Rabbi S.R. Hirsch on the parsha: Should we pave our own path?
Individuality is valuable but only if the Torah lies at its core.
Rabbi Hirsch on the parsha:Is your wife on the same page as you?
Asnas came from a very different background than Yosef, but she embraced his vision.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Keep burning
Hashem wants every aspect of our life to be fuel for His fire.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: A recipe for peace of mind
A guilty conscience plagued Yaakov before meeting Esav.
Stop worrying about Gazan civilians
One cannot find any moral hand-wringing among the classic Bible commentators when fighting the enemy..
Rav Hirsch on the parsha: Don’t let the angels laugh at you
The solution is on earth, not in heaven.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Improper parenting
Yistchak and Rivkah raised Esav without regard to his nature.
Rav Samson R. Hirsch on the parsha: Are adolescents innocent?
They can be – if they follow Sarah and Rivkah’s example.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Merciless Rapists
Sodom’s population had no redeeming element.
Rabbi Hirsch on the parsha: Avraham, the first “Protestant”
We’re supposed to change the world, not Torah.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on mankind: Are we born good?
A famous verse ןמ Genesis 8 seems to suggest otherwise.
How to win a war
Few questioned the morality of burning Japan’s cities. They had no sympathy for Japan, which appallingly abused captured US civilians.Op-ed.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: A time for action
G-d expects pious Jews to do more than pray.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Torah, not therapy
The answer to our problems – and the source of our joy – is Divine meaning.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on Sukkot: Smile
G-d wants us to be happy.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parshah: Cowering in fear
Avodah Zarah prevents man from being fully human.
Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch on Rosh Hashanah: Facts, not feelings
The High Holy Days aren’t about cheap sentimentality.
Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch on the parsha: Breathing isn’t enough
Life is more than the absence of death.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Are we clannish?
Our very first task upon entering the Promised Land involved outreach to non-Jews.
Rabbi Samson Refael Hirsch on the parsha: Why Is she stoned?
Marriage is much more than a physical union.
Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch on the parasha: We need a king!
A Jewish king’s purpose starts where that of a non-Jewish king often ends.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parasha: It's in our hands
Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Eval teach us that our environment isn’t determinative.
Rabbi Shinshon Rafael Hirsch: Should we make the Torah easier?
Our ancestors found G-d’s law difficult to obey, but G-d never lowered His standards.
Rav Shimshon R. Hirsch on the parasha: Why study Torah?
Torah knowledge without practical application “has no value.”
Rav Shimshon R. Hirsch on the parsha: Empires and Expansionism
We aren’t the only people to whom G-d assigned a land.
Rav Shimshon R.Hirsch on the Parsha: The human face of Paganism
Tolerance is lauded in the modern West, but it isn’t always a virtue in Judaism.
Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch: Pinchas:G-d wants us to be happy
The Torah calls for joy and serenity – in this world. A “suffering servant” is not the Jewish ideal.
Rav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch on the parsha: Surrounded by snakes
Do we appreciate how often G-d saves us without us even knowing it?
Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch on the parsha: Getting Right to It
The almond tree' symbolizes the spirit of the tribe of Levi. How?
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on the Parsha: Moshe's secret message
There is a surprising reason that Moshe changed the name of one of the spies and not the others.
Rabbi Shimshon Rafael HIrsch on the parasha: Moshe and Elitism
Today, we see the people who claim to represent democracy looking down with contempt at the masses. That's an anti-Torah way to act.
Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch on the parsha: Floating dust
Parashat Naso contains the laws of the Sotah - a woman suspected of adultery,
Rabbi Shimshon Refael HIrsch on the parasha: Do we matter?
That depends....