Torah, The

The life of a person is divided into days, and every day is divided into morning and evening.

Torah study or prayer? Man or Woman? A transcendent perspective or an emphatic view? Two pathways through life, and two consolations in the future redemption...

Home in the womb, on the road of life, lying down in the grave, and waking up in the world to come . . .

Anxious Parshah

On the Shema and the discipline of listening.

What does the word totafot actually mean?

Love of The Land Moses’ 36-day farewell address to the Children of Israel continues in the Torah portion of Va’etchanan. Va’etchanan, “and I pleaded,” Moses reminisces. Deuteronomy 3:23. After G-d permitted him to grant territory on the eastern side of th...

Introduction According to our Sages, See Sifsei Chachamim, Chasam Sofer, Bereishis 37:35, et al. the fact that a person becomes less pained by the loss of a loved one over the course of time is ordained from Above. Otherwise, there would be no way that on...

Introduction Our Rabbis Rashi, Berachos 13b. explain that the words “G‑d is one” in the Shema do not mean only that there is one G‑d, but that G‑d is one throughout all existence, that His unity encompasses the heavens above and all the four directions of...