The commandment to build a sukkah using waste has a surprising dual meaning: It encourages us to seek more balance in our ...

Though the Talmud is an ancient text, steeped in the mores of a very ... to keep pushing it toward those principles the ...

Will Jews dance this year on Simchat Torah? To answer this question, the Magazine interviewed several people in diverse ...

Each Torah portion includes a line-by-line analysis, with Shoff sometimes bringing in multiple sources to provide insights.

The reader should be prepared for a serious, novel, and often dense treatment of some of the most fundamental problems concerning the development and transmission of the Oral Torah. Talmud ...

The Talmud also shares quite a few stories of some of the most famous sages, including people like Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Akiva, who were subjected to serious temptations of this nature and barely ...

The Torah reinforces this perspective when declaring that on the ... believing and knowing the outcome will be good ...

Rabbi Andrew Rosenblatt of the nearby Schara Tzedeck synagogue says the Oct. 7 attack and the community's reaction are "a little bit akin to the anniversary of 9/11," referring to the terrorist ...

the essence of Torah is now in the hands of mankind, with God’s wisdom and words sanctified through our own discovery. The Talmud further reinforces this notion of human authority, albeit within ...

Celebrations for the Jewish harvest festival Sukkot typically involve the etrog (or citron) fruit along with myrtle boughs, ...

Rabbeinu Yona in Shaarei Teshuva (3:17) teaches us that the sublime virtues in Judaism (e.g. Talmud Torah, “V’halachta Bidrachav – following in His ways) were given over as Mitzvot Asei ...

The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel killed about 1,200 people while about 250 more were taken hostage. It triggered an ...