The prerequisite to understanding any story is answering the question: What is its genre? This might seem like an easy task, but it’s really not. Let’s say that someone gets offended by a joke. The ...

This Chanukah, Machon Shiurei Torah by Rabbi Mendel Benjaminson is offering two free, ready-to-use classes for Shluchim and ...

The Torah teaches us to revere our mother and father (Lev. 19:3). This mitzvah is embedded within the Holiness Code. In observing it, we achieve holiness, as well as the wholeness of learning from the ...

Of all the Festivals in our calendar, Shavuot can easily seem like the “unloved child”. Each of the other Festivals has its own special mitzvot: dwelling in the Sukkah and waving the Four Species on ...

NITZAVIM-VA’YALECH, this m’chubar (double) portion is also the final weekly Torah portion of 5780. When the rest of the community was requited to quarantine in response to the COVID 19 virus, health ...

Many of us find it hard to relate to the Torah portion of Vayikra. It focuses on a practice that is no longer in use today. We learn of various types of sacrifices and how they were to be fulfilled on ...

After repeatedly denouncing and prohibiting the creation of statues, portrayals of the human form, or anything resembling idols—on pain of death—God issues an unusual command. In the construction of ...

For almost half a century, Jewish students in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have been learning the intricacies of chanting the Torah from a man who, when he was their age, was running for his life. When ...

Harry Potter didn’t consult the Torah before fighting Lord Voldemort, and Mr. Holland didn’t study the book while writing his opus. Yet Yehudis Fishman, a longtime Torah teacher, believes the morals ...