Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...

The parashah opens with a command that honestly doesn’t sound comforting at all: בֹּא אֶל־פַּרְעֹה — Bo el-Paró. It doesn’t ...

History doesn’t always move forward in light. Sometimes it moves in the dark — the kind of dark where you feel stupid even hoping. Bo lives there. That second before dawn when the night gets so thick ...

“When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this ‘Torah’ written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it remain with him and let him read it all his life, so that he ...

Parashat Ki Teitzei 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 ...

Did God rob Pharaoh of his free will in the Exodus story? Or, counterintuitively, did God simply strengthen it?

Rabbi Elchanan Shoff, the leader of Beis Knesses Los Angeles in Pico-Robertson and a local educator, is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to Torah learning. Whether he is giving a ...

I received hundreds of responses (and you’re welcome to keep sharing!). It was a historic holiday. First, people whose lives had revolved around the hostages, including them in their daily prayers, ...

Jews revere the Torah as a central part of our religion. The word “Torah” is from the same Hebrew “root” word as the word for teacher. Torah is the teaching from God that we try to use to direct our ...