Pekudei reminds us that holiness isn’t just found in grand gestures—it’s in the effort, the intention, and the meaning we ...

While they share Jewish roots with American Jews, there can be cultural differences, different social customs and ways of ...

Does anything I wrote have to do with parshat Vayakhel? Absolutely. Not only is that an affirmative answer, but it connects ...

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

The last Torah portion of the Book of Exodus details the completion and accounting of the construction of the Tabernacle. It reminds us that it is the “Tabernacle of the Pact,” meaning that it ...

"To receive but not to give is, in Jewish geography as well as Jewish psychology, simply not life," said Rabbi Jonathan Sachs ...

It is a profound act of faith to meet death and continue to believe passionately in life. And that faith is truly ...

After the חטא העגל the Torah tells us that Moshe took his tent, put it outside of the camp, called it אהל מועד, and whoever wanted to hear God’s word would have to go there. The ...

Parshat Vayachel: Exodus 35:1-38:20; Numbers 19: 1-22; Ezekiel 36: 16-38. So important and beloved was the sacred desert tabernacle that the Bible records both its construction and completion.

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.