The biblical term for coming together as a community or nation derives from the root k-h-l (קהל), which is the root of the ...

Temple, built in harmony and generosity, and let this be the foundation of your own home – built on love and overflowing ...

This parasha is explicitly about gathering the many kinds of materials for the Mishkan, the moving sanctuary in the desert.

The weekly Torah portion “Mishpatim” primarily deals with laws governing interpersonal relationships – monetary laws, damages, and everything related to mishpatim (“judgments”).

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s real estate dreams of Gaza, some long suppressed imaginations of Israeli Jews are ...

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The weekly Torah portion of “Teruma” comes after the Torah has been given at Sinai and after the portion of “Mishpatim,” the first exposure to the legal system we will come to call Halacha.

However there was one sense that had always been pure – that was the most subtle and intangible of senses – the sense of ...

It is parashat Terumah time, Rosh Chodesh Adar is this Shabbat, which is also Shabbat parashat Shekalim (the Half Shekel offering). In parashat Terumah, beginning in Exodus, chapter 25 ...