This week’s Torah portion, T’rumah, represents another abrupt shift in focus within the book of Exodus from the mostly legal ...
By seating the elders at the front of the synagogue, the entire congregation bestows honor upon the Torah and its Sages.
Question: When the aron kodesh was opened for Krias HaTorah this past Shabbos, we realized that the Shekalim Sefer Torah had not been rolled; it was still at the Rosh Chodesh kriah in parshas Pinchos.
In a brilliant insight, the Ishbitzer reads V’yikhu li Terumah not to mean “Bring to Me [God] an offering [an item],” but rather, “Take yourself as an offering!” In other words, “Take your ‘me’ as an ...
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On Sunday, Hei Adar (February 22), a new Sefer Torah written in memory of Etty Lipszyc, a”h -daughter of Rabbi Shalom and ...
The Torah explains that the Israelites should make a sanctuary, a place where God dwells. But just a few verses earlier, the Torah teaches that the same sanctuary should be created with gifts from ...
New Synagogue in Palm Beach will dedicate Torah covers Feb. 13, honoring soldiers with scrolls donated by the late S. Daniel ...
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman discusses Parashat Mishpatim, which dives into case law: damages, injuries, lost property, workers’ rights, responsibility for animals, protecting the vulnerable.
Today, light is ambient and inexpensive. We leave it on without noticing. Against that backdrop, the requirement of a steady flow of pure oil for the Mishkan’s lighting can easily be underestimated.
This week’s Torah portion came to life for a rabbi in an entirely new way after a recent mission in Minneapolis to confront ICE.
Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, came to Tucson recently for the dedication of a Torah scroll in the ...