Our guest this week is Rabbi Steven Bayar, the rabbi of congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn, NJ. Rabbi Bayar received his BA in religious studies and an MA in Biblical Studies and Medieval Jewish ...

From the air, Denver International Airport looked like a city of white tents erected on a desert plain, its billowing white roofs meant to evoke the snow-capped Colorado Rockies and the historic ...

In this week’s Parshah, [Parshas Balak], the King of Moav, [whose name is] Balak, seeks to employ the services of a sorcerer and prophet named Bilaam in order to curse the Jews. Though given several ...

Halacha prohibits causing pain to animals. There is a Talmudic discussion as to whether this prohibition stems from Torah or is Rabbinic in origin. (B.M. 32) The consensus of Poskim is צער בעלי חיים ...

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In this week’s Torah portion, “Balak,” we read about the prophet Balaam, who was hired Balak, the king of Moab, to curse the Jewish people as they approached the Land of Israel. But instead, God ...

Parashat Pinchas begins with a continuation of the narrative of Israel’s immoral behavior found at the conclusion of Parashat Balak. That behavior was induced by Balaam, the heathen prophet hired by ...

There is a clear parallel between Balak and events in the Book of Exodus. In both narratives, kings (Pharaoh of Egypt and Balak of Moab), alarmed about the success of the Jewish People, conspire to ...