The Sublimity of Insincerity Thoughts on Torah Portion Vayechi 2024 ©Rabbi Mordecai Finley There is one passage in our Torah ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

The Ibn Ezra explains the following: "The verse mentions the purchase of land to inform us that having a portion of the Land is like having a portion of the World to Come." 1. What is the ...

This may sound like the description of a new Netflix drama but it’s actually a scene in a poem inspired by the parshah (Torah portion) Vayishlach, in which Jacob’s daughter Dina is abducted ...

In our Torah portion, Va-Yishlach, we have one of the most dramatic and vivid scenes in the Bible – Jacob wrestling with an angel. Except, in our Torah portion, it is never written that Jacob ...

A midrash on this week’s Torah portion interprets the well-known verse from Psalms: “A song of ascents: I lift my eyes to the mountains (he’harim)” (Psalms 121:1). Leaving Beersheba ...