The Strands and the Cord Thoughts on Torah Portion Va’eira 2025 Throughout her discussion of this week’s Torah portion, ...

Parshat Va’era: Exodus 6:2-9:35; Ezekiel 28:25-29:21.

When Moses resists the Divine call, he expresses a heartfelt and deep humility that serves as a model for all of us.

The father gathers his children and blesses each of them with the most well-known parental blessing in the Torah, which is found in this week’s portion: “May G-d bless you to be like Ephraim ...

The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor ...

received a Torah in book form in 1984 burned to the ground. Pacific Palisades, one of our paradises, now a thing of the past.

In Vayeshev, Yosef, a young man unjustly imprisoned, finds himself interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker. To the cupbearer, Yosef offers a hopeful message: “In three days ...

Each week, Ari Sliffman, a Jewish legal mediator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will discuss the week’s Parshah “through the lens of a mediator.” Ari will focus on one or two sections of the Parshah ...

From this week’s Torah portion, we learn that it is specifically through standing strong and with pride in our identity that ...