When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written ...

The ninth weekly biblical reading in Exodus, Ki Tissa (30:11-34:35), tells us significant details about God, the Torah, and the Shabbat, revealing deep meaning and significance that should affect our ...

By accepting the Torah, the Jews themselves became a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation (Shemos 19:6). However, Chazal tell us (Shabbat 88a) that their acceptance of the Torah was under duress.

Consider, first of all, the passage we’ve just seen from near the beginning of the book of Exodus, when God tells Moses that ...

To be sure, words like “democracy” (rule by the people ... which they were in dialogue was not Plato or Aristotle but the Hebrew Bible. Hobbes quotes it 657 times in The Leviathan alone.

Tetzaveh is, as is well known, the parshah in which, for once, Moses takes second place. In fact, he is not mentioned by name at all, and all the focus is on his brother, Aaron, and on the role he ...

Abraham Lincoln said it best when he spoke of “a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” The revelation at Mount Sinai — the ...