Torah, The

What is the biggest miracle of our generation? The fall of Communism? The peaceful political transition in South Africa? That Fidel Castro still runs Cuba?

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the month of Shevat, Moses began translating the Torah into the various languages of his time. What is the significance of Moses' translation? Is translating the Torah always a good thing, or can it also have nega...

Those Jews standing around him all understood Hebrew, and I seriously doubt that any one of them would have been comforted or impressed to hear it over again in Outer Mongolian or Swahili...

Translation is a sensitive and possibly dangerous process. Our sages commented that the day the Torah was translated into Greek “was as difficult for the Jewish people as the day when the Golden Calf was made.”

Anxious Parsha - Devarim

At the end of life, how do we frame our most pivotal and painful moments?

Why does the Torah include a description of Og’s enormous bed?

Introduction In many Jewish communities, the very mention of Shabbos Chazon calls forth somber thoughts. Communal mourning practices associated with the Nine Days are followed in some places even though it is Shabbos, and the Haftarah – from which this Sh...

Introduction Reb Gershon Ber of Pahr was a profound scholar of Chassidus, but sparing in words. Even so, he would translate everything into Yiddish when davening. He once asked Reb Peretz Chein, the rav of Nevl, if it was permissible to translate the word...