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...

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,...

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...