Temple, built in harmony and generosity, and let this be the foundation of your own home – built on love and overflowing ...

Hearing the Silent Aleph -   Vayakhel   ©️Rabbi Mordecai Finley, 2025 This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of ...

This week’s Torah portion is a story of forgiveness and the opportunity to make things right. The opening sentence tells it ...

Critics of our people point to the stiff-necked, weak-willed character of our forebears. At the time, perhaps it was an ...

Parshat Terumah: Exodus 25:1-27:19; Numbers 28:9-15; Exodus 30:11-16; II King 12: 1-17. Exactly as I show you … so shall you make it.” Found at the beginning of this week’s parshah, this ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

As modern Jews, our sacred task is to meaningfully investigate how to interpret and construct the Torah’s dictates in our time. If we accept this as our responsibility, we might ask how we ...

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The weekly Torah portion of “Teruma” comes after the Torah has been given at Sinai and after the portion of “Mishpatim,” the first exposure to the legal system we will come to call Halacha.

It takes creativity to embrace an invisible God. It takes strength to worship a God who exists, who lives, but who does not ...

Michel M.J. Shore is a retired judge of the Federal Court of Canada and recently made a home in Israel. He is the writer of ...