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Oct 16, 2026, 7:24 PM

A Story of Heaven and Earth (Noach, Covenant & Conversation)

Written by Rabbi Sacks in 2007 Set between the pre-history of humanity as a whole and the particular covenant with Abraham, the story of the Tower of Babel is one of the turning points of the biblical narrative, central to...

Hande Gençünal

Oct 16, 2026, 8:51 AM

On the smallest letter and the whole that a broken thing remembers Whatever letter a scribe is about to write, the pen first touches the parchment as a single dot. That dot grows, stretches, bends, and becomes an alef, a...

Oct 15, 2026, 10:58 PM

Who Protects the Protector?

The private uncertainty behind Abraham's public courage The most revealing moment in this week's Torah portion, Lech-Lecha, does not take place on a battlefield. It comes afterward, when the fighting is over, the captives have been rescued, and the hero...

Oct 15, 2026, 10:36 PM

Parshas Noach 5787

The Tower of Babel: The Difference Between Unity and True Responsibility Combining the insights of HaRav Yochanan Zweig and Harry Rothenberg, Esq. The Torah’s account of humanity begins with a fundamental question of responsibility. After Cain murders his brother Hevel, Hashem...

Aharon Ariel Lavi

Oct 11, 2026, 11:48 PM

Saadia’s parsha: What is to work the land?

Over 1,000 years ago, Rabbi Saadia Gaon – one of the greatest Jewish scholars of the medieval period - produced his monumental Arabic translation of the Torah. But it was much more than a technical translation. It became known as...

Oct 11, 2026, 1:13 AM

Created and Creating – Bereshit 5787

A Note on This Series: I approach the weekly Torah portion not as a religious scholar or someone seeking to offer an authoritative interpretation, but as a secular Jew for whom Jewish texts remain a source of curiosity, questioning,...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:37 AM

Parshat Bereshit: In The Beginning…Again.

What if a new beginning doesn't require leaving your old life behind, but finally understanding where it was leading you all along? Every year, we finish reading the Torah and begin again. The same words. The same stories. The same beginning. But...

Jonathan Muskat

Oct 10, 2026, 1:35 AM

Before We Answer the World

So many have already taken apart Zohran Mamdani’s October 7th remarks, point by point. I want to make a different point: We should not let him define the conversation. If we begin by debating whether Israel is guilty of genocide or...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:34 AM

The Fight You Were Born For

Every year, when we begin the Torah again and return to the story of Adam, I go back to my childhood. For a short time, my father and I would learn talks of the Rebbe together on Shabbos afternoons....

Oct 10, 2026, 1:31 AM

When the Bed Is a Battleground: October 7, Beta Israel Theology, and Redemption

A close friend of mine lives in Montreal. She is active in an important organization dedicated to women’s rights, particularly helping women who have suffered as a result of wars and armed conflicts. She is an extraordinarily compassionate person,...

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