Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed to Moses in the ...
This week’s Torah portion, Nitzavim (“Stand up and be counted”), contains stark language. Choose – life or death, blessing or curse. In my words, choose the laws of the moral and spiritual order or ...
Throughout her discussion of this week’s Torah portion, Va’eira (“I appeared”) in her The Particulars of Rapture, Avivah Zornberg draws fascinating parallels among three main protagonists – Moses, ...
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