In this week's Torah portion, we learn about the primary sacrifice in the Temple which was called the Tamid offering.
Read More »Understanding Sacrifices
This week we begin to read the book of Leviticus in which it teaches regarding animal offering.
Read More »Building Community
This week we read two Torah portions and finish the second book of the Torah, Shemos.
Read More »Purim – An Ongoing Phenomenon
It is well known that when Purim comes along, it's time to put on a Purim costume. What, however, is the reason for this tradition?
Read More »The Temple’s Dress Code
In this week's Torah portion we learn about the special clothing the Cohens (Priests) and High Priest had to wear when serving in the Temple.
Read More »Building a Home for G-d
In this week's Torah portion, we learn about the commandment to build a sanctuary in which G-d's presence will rest and be felt.
Read More »Jail vs Fines?
This week's Torah portion discusses many civil wars such as the punishment for stealing, kidnapping, physical assault etc.
Read More »Joining Physicality with Spirituality
In this week's Torah portion, we learn about Moses' father in law Yisro coming to the desert to meet Moses and the Jewish people.
Read More »Learning How to Sing
In this week's Torah portion, we learn about G-d splitting the sea for the Jews to walk on dry land and then reverting the water back to its original state to drown the Egyptians.
Read More »The Purpose of the Plagues
In this week's Torah portion, Bo, we learn about the last three plagues.
Read More »The Quintessential Speaker
In this week's Torah Portion, we learn about Moses being given the mission to warn Pharaoh of the punishments he would receive if he did not free the Jewish people.
Read More »River Borne
In this week's Torah Portion, we begin to learn the story of the of the Jewish Slavery in Egypt.
Read More »The Future of a Nation (Vayechi)
In the Torah portion, we learn about Jacob's blessing his twelve sons before his passing.
Read More »The Art of Anger Management
This week's Torah portion teaches us a more effective way to deal with anger.
Read More »Chanukah, the Festival of Lights
There are two holidays in which we celebrate the deliverance of the Jewish people in post-biblical times, Chanukah and Purim. Yet they are celebrated in very different ways.
Read More »Dream Comes True
In this week's Torah portion we learn about the selling of Joseph by his brothers. This story of the Torah seems shocking! Learn why... and why not.
Read More »Presents and Flattery
In this week's Torah portion, we learn about Jacob leaving Laban's house with his family and returning to Israel.
Read More »Transforming Darkness
In this week's Torah portion, we learn about Jacob having to run away from his brother Esau after he deceived Isaac into giving him the firstborn blessings instead of giving it to Esau.
Read More »The Bible’s First Excavator
In this week's Torah portion, we read about the life of our forefather Yitzchak (Isaac).
Read More »Points of Light
This week, we read about Eliezer, Abraham's trusted servant, bringing Rebecca from Aram for a wife for Abraham's son Isaac.
Read More »Abraham, the Paradigm of Kindness
In this week's Torah portion, we are taught a few stories which display Abraham's extraordinary kindness.
Read More »The Birth of a Nation
In this week's Torah portion, we begin to learn about our Patriarch Abraham, father and enabler of the Jewish nation.
Read More »Heavenly Peace
This week's Torah portion we read about the building of Noah's Ark and how Noah was commanded to bring into the Ark all the species of animals, birds and insects.
Read More »Digging Deeper on Yom Kippur
"In the days of old, when a river dries up people would dig in the ground until they uncovered the spring that would refill the river."
Read More »A Year of Shabbat
The upcoming year is a special year, it is a Sabbatical year. There are various laws in the Torah regarding the Sabbatical year.
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