The following is a sermon I delivered at Valley Temple on Friday evening, December 29th, 2023. In my work with wedding couples, I’ve...

Jacob is the last of our major patriarchs in Judaism, and his death closes the book of Genesis. Throughout his story, we see a...

Different people approach the Bible with different needs. Some read the book in order to learn the history of our people (reading the...

Generally, when we read the Bible, we are looking for lessons about how we can live a more fulfilling, meaningful, moral life. But the...

We aren’t supposed to play favorites, but I think Genesis is the best book in the Bible. There is so much nuance to each of the stories,...

Abraham finished last week’s Torah portion with a self-operated circumcision, so it would make sense that this week, in Parashat Vayera,...

What do you create next after you’re done making the greatest cinematic conclusion in the history of entertainment? Marvel Studios is...

Only two weeks into the reading of the book of Genesis, you’d wonder whether or not God had much of a plan when creating humanity. The...

“I begin with a prayer of gratitude for all that is holy in my life. God needs no words, no English or Hebrew, no semantics and no...

From the origins of creation to the creation of Am Yisrael, the book of Genesis has endeavored to explain the inception of the world as...

Joseph would have had every right to punish his brothers. After reuniting with the men who had tried to kill him, sold him into slavery,...

Thanks to Donnie Osmond, the world is quite familiar with the story of Joseph and his brothers. While we know the exquisite details of...

We have been reading the Torah for over two thousand years. The beauty of such a long relationship with a text is that we have poured...

Jacob was terrified. He had just finished deceiving his brother, his much larger, stronger, and fitter brother, stealing his birthright...

One of the most damaging notions when thinking about our Torah is to assume the perfection of the characters described. It is not an...

Humanity has expanded rapidly since the days of the Torah. In his anthropological treatise, Sapiens, Israeli writer Yuval Noah Harari...

When God created humanity, things didn’t go so well the first time. Or the second time. Or even the third time. From Adam and Eve eating...

God, as a character in the Torah, takes on many forms. In the Garden of Eden, God is described as “walking about the garden.” (Genesis...