A scholar of Jewish languages argues that Trump's use of the Hebrew word meaning hello, goodbye and peace stokes antisemitism ...

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

Joy Ladin, a poet, creative non-fiction writer and nationally recognized thought leader on gender and Jewish identity, will ...

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 ...

People think they are free because they have been taught that all morality is relative, and you can do what you like so long as you do not harm others.

The opening words of Parshat Tetzaveh are: “You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives ...

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 ...