Matan Women's Torah Institute

Rosh Hodesh Iyar Torah essay: National and personal recuperation

Iyar as a month of healing is not merely a word play, but an essential time from Nissan to Sivan for national refinement and recuperation.

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.

Wouldn't the mitzva to love one's neighbor be a suitable first commandment to the Jewish people? Why the establishment of the new month?

We daven for a time in the future redemption when the moon’s light will once again be as bright as the sun.

Hashem expresses a double name and the names of a few characters in Tanakh are doubled as well. There is a pattern of meaning here.

Winter is a crucial part of spring, suffering a crucial part of celebration, failure an essential ingredient to success.

Hashem’s presence is in our midst even in the darkness and sometimes most especially in times of tragedy and hardship. Do we stop to listen?

The first translation of the Torah, into Greek, was in Tevet and is part of the reason for fasting on the 10th of Tevet. What is so bad?

Hanukkah is coming, the story reminding us that in the past, we have become enamoured with our own power and too secure in our position.

Founder and Chancellor of the Matan Women’s Institute for Torah Studies announces that after 33 years she will step back.

May the unity experienced at Mount Sinai envelop us once again as we study Torah on the holiday of Shavuot celebrating that event.

Arutz Sheva spoke to Rabbanit Malke Bina, founder of MaTaN, an institution dedicated to furthering women's Torah and Talmud learning.

We must learn to 'pay it forward', realizing that many of the fruits of our labor won’t be ripe for years.

What do we want to return to in Megillat Eicha?

“There is nothing more whole than a broken heart” -Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk.