Nothing in the Torah is superfluous. From every word – and even from each letter – our sages derived halachic rulings or ...

We know who we are. They cannot fathom it. Our tireless efforts to explain may fall on deaf ears – but we hear, and we know.

Author Lin Baytree guides readers on the path to know more about the Creator of the Universe in The Prophet ($15.49, paperback, 9798868514685; $6.99, e-book, 9798868514692). "After the loss of my ...

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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 ...

The Zohar tells us that these pure souls advocate for us in ways we cannot see, and that G-d unites with them in a special ...

As we enter the period of the Four Parshiyot, which ushers in the Pesach season—a time when we long for Geulah (Redemption) more than any other—we began last Shabbat with Parshat Shekalim.

The only one who believed the fake news that they had the power to dismantle the country was Sinwar, and we will never forget ...

The women had to be there and also the babies, not simply because that was how it was at Matan Torah, but for another reason. Neither the women or the babies were complicit in the sin of the eigel, th ...

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” [1] Israel must defend itself in both law [2] and strategy ...