This coming Simchat Torah marks the first one-year anniversary (on the Hebrew calendar) of the worst bloody massacre of Jews since the dark days of the Holocaust. It is so difficult to fathom that we ...
In Torah time — both timeless and this week — we gather at Sinai once again to receive the foundational values and directives upon which to move from scarcity/slave mentality and behavior to ...
For many Jews across the United States and globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah will forever revolve around grim phone alerts and hushed conversations in synagogue, tears, ...
You may well have missed it, but an astounding phenomenon took place in the Torah a few weeks ago. Nearly thirty-eight years passed without comment from the text. In one fell swoop, the Torah jumps ...