I am often asked how I answer the harder questions, whether they are questions about God or about whether the stories in the Torah are “real.” I often respond only with, “That’s a great question.” ...
It takes creativity to embrace an invisible God. It takes strength to worship a God who exists, who lives, but who does not ...
What they were doing — initiating pledges — the frat brothers plan to keep on doing, but this time with a real Torah, donated during the event by the campus Hillel. “We want to show that you ...
The weekly Torah portion of “Teruma” comes after the Torah has been given at Sinai and after the portion of “Mishpatim,” the first exposure to the legal system we will come to call Halacha.
Their mission is to continue the Torah into every aspect and situation of life. How does this occur? Let's imagine two people arguing about a business dispute, or perhaps a real estate lease ...
CHARLIE: When you're Jewish like me you try to live life by God's Commandments in the Torah the first Five Books of Moses. Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in ...
Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made ...