Moses knew that if you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for a decade, plant a tree. If you plan for posterity, educate a child. His lesson is still compelling today. To gain insight into the ...

Shabbat Hagadol is a time of inner preparation for the Festival of Freedom. On this Shabbat, we begin to think and act from a ...

In the final scene of “The Graduate,” as the giddy runaway lovers Elaine and Benjamin take their seats at the back of a bus, we are plunged into a moment of sudden stillness that interrupts the ...

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In Parashat Vayishlach, Ya’akov is returning home. Twenty years earlier, he tricked his father, stole the blessing from his brother, Esav, and ran away. For 20 years he has held onto the hope that, ...

This week’s parashat, Tazria, and next week’s parashat, Mezora, discuss in great detail a number of ailments, skin conditions, and bodily emissions, and the role of the Kohanim in “diagnosing” these ...

Not all hardened hearts are loud. Some are sharp but polite. Some are wrapped in concern. Some arrive at the family table smiling while quietly tightening control. Parashat Va’era tells us that ...

Ever since the yearly cycle of Torah readings was standardised towards the end of the Second Temple era, and the fixed calendar as calculated by Hillel II (Hillel ben Yehudah, Nasi or head of the ...

Parashat Ki Teitze contains 74 of the 613 mitzvot - more than any other Parashah in the Torah. 13 of these 74 mitzvot relate specifically to warfare and how to relate to enemy nations. The Parashah ...