The third book of the Torah is commonly known in English as Leviticus. The name comes from Greek and simply means “pertaining to the Levites,” the priestly tribe responsible for ...

Sigmund Freud argued that sublimation is a defense mechanism, where we take emotionally unacceptable impulses and transform them into socially conventional and constructive activities. He gives an ...

Shabbat Hachodesh reminds us that national rebirth is not only a matter of borders, armies, and institutions. It is also a ...

In Judaism, words are holy and sacred. The world was created by Divine speech, teaches us the opening book of the Pentateuch; the Hebrew alphabet constitutes the spiritual DNA of the cosmos, according ...

Parashat Acharei Mot is so fraught that one can hardly think about its content without considering what parts of it we dodge or downright omit. In its entirety, the parsha covers Leviticus 16-18. The ...

Each year, when we read the sections of the Torah that describe the building of the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle, many people notice something surprising. The Torah already spent two ...

This week we begin the last book of the Torah, which goes by two different names: Deuteronomy, or “second telling,” and D’varim, literally, “words.” Israel’s ground war against Hamas, its primary ...

Some might describe the Super Bowl LVII showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs as "biblical." Well, a look at the portion of the Jewish Torah that, coincidentally, is being ...

A tambourine-lover with creative tactics meant to take congregants outside of their comfort zone, Rabbi RuthE Levy of Mountain Synagogue in Franklin doesn’t mess around when it comes to musical ...

The Red Sea split, paving an improbable path. Water became walls on either side, towering and still. As Pharaoh’s chariots thundered in pursuit of the fleeing Israelites, nations on the sidelines ...