The foundation of religious life is moral integrity. Before introducing rituals, ceremonies, or prohibitions, God demands that we act with decency and righteousness.

MISHPATIM: The prohibition against boiling a kid in its mother’s milk never made sense to this rabbi — until a party about 20 ...

Have you ever contemplated what it might be like to tread in the footsteps of God? Around the globe, there are holy locations ...

In ages hence, he will christen himself “Savior of Christianity.” St. Donald de Felón spoke into existence the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias.” While there is actual anti-Christian bias ...

Do not come any closer.” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Exodus 35:5 ...

A fter Sinai, the newly converted Jews could look back at G-d’s delivery of the laws of Passover to the Israelites, “whether a convert or a native of the land,” and realize: Not everything that G-d ...

In a new book, “Holiness and Society,” the Israeli scholar Ronen Shoval seeks to understand the philosophical implications of the phrase and its contemporary resonance.

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a Kentucky statute requiring school officials to post a copy of the Ten Commandments violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The high court ...

The mountain עשן כלו מפני אשר ירד עליו ה’ באש, ‘smoked over all its face, because G-d descended upon it in fire’ (Ex.19:18), ...

This entire chapter would be seen as a prophecy of the redemptive work of Yeshua to the Jews first, and then equally to the ...

The Possuk is vague in its description of exactly what Yitro heard that served as the catalyst for his joining the Jewish people. Rashi, ad. loc., comments that: “AND JETHRO HEARD — What was the ...