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

Ritual is an essential component of Judaism. Zionist essayist Ahad Ha’am famously said “more than Israel has kept Shabbat, Shabbat has...

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...

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...

This blog post is the byproduct of a conversation with Rabbi Michael Weiss. Special thanks to him for his wisdom, insight, and...

When I was a kid, my family used to read the children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Needless to...

One of the biggest dangers of reading our Torah is our inability to put ourselves into the context of the section with which we are...

“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...

If you were to try to create a ranking of the best Torah portions, it is likely that all Jews would have a slightly different list. (The...

Throughout the ages, science has attempted to prove the accuracy of the story described in Parashat B’Shalach, at the peril of failing to...

At the beginning of Parashat Bo, God is preparing to bring about the worst, most impactful plague upon Egypt. Knowing that the Israelites...

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...

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