Secular society often stresses the importance of "working through one's feelings" in the aftermath of a tragedy. Therapists, for example, often encourage people to express and delve into their ...

Worshipping the idols of Mitzrayim naturally followed. In the Torah portion of Vayechi, to be sure that his children wouldn’t turn Mitzrayim into a new Promised Land, Yaacov requests that he be ...

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.-Lawrence G. Lovasik Joseph son of Jacob enters ...

Joseph son of Jacob enters with his own two sons, Menashe and Ephraim, to visit with his bed-ridden father, Jacob (Genesis 48). Jacob inquires as to who is accompanying Joseph. Joseph responds ...

And Joseph bound the sons of Israel by an oath to bind their descendants by an oath, saying, “God will surely remember you and your descendants, and when He does, you must have them take my ...

There is one passage in our Torah portion that has always bothered me. I’d never heard a satisfactory teaching on this passage until I listened to Avivah Zornberg’s teaching, linked here ...

The haftarah (reading from the Prophets) of this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi (“And he lived”), invites us to compare and contrast the last will and testament of King David with that of our ...

The haftarah (reading from the Prophets) of this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi (“And he lived”), invites us to compare and contrast the last will and testament of King David with that of our ...