Parsha

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky In what must be one of the greatest transitional scenes in the entire Biblical narrative, this week the Torah transposes us...

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Most people do not give much thought to their ancestral origins. But some do, and I am one of...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, the history of the Jewish people commences. Until now, in the portions of Genesis and Noah, we...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb There are many words in the English language that originally had great power but have become watered down over the...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis There is a famous Midrash based on this week’s parsha that asks, “If there are so many ways through which G-d could have saved Noah,...

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston In the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth. (Bereishis 1:1) The words are so incredibly simple, and yet, of course,...

By: Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld Simchat Torah is given a curious description in Torah: “On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you… it...

By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Imagine you throw a huge party and invite everyone you know. But this is no “regular” party: It’s one solid week...

By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Following on the heels of the High Holidays is Sukkot, a seven-day festival (8 days in the Diaspora) characterized by the...

By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons The Torah says: “You shall take... the beautiful fruit (Esrog), a palm frond (Lulav), myrtle twigs and willow branches of the stream...

By: Rabbi Elozor Barclay & Rabbi Yitzchok Jaeger 1) What specifically is forbidden on Yom Kippur? In addition to the forms of work (both Torah and...

By: Tamar Taback Come into the Now Teshuva, repentance, is a miraculous mechanism that was created even before the creation of the world1and is always...

By: Shlomo Katz There are two holidays mentioned in the Torah whose primary significance is not described there. Nowhere in the Torah is Rosh Hashanah...

By: Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffman Parshas Nitzavim contains a section called Parshas ha-Teshuva, The Chapter of Repentance; so called because in this chapter Moshe encourages Bnei...

By: Rabbi Yisroel Ciner This week we read Parshas Ki Savo. “And it will be ‘ki savo’ {when you will come} to the land that...

By:  Larry Domnitch The recitation that accompanies the bringing of the first fruits (Bikkurim) in the times of the Temple from the seven specified species...