Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

My eleven year old daughter has recently been reading the classic Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. I asked her if she had finished the first bo...

In the opening chapter of Parshas  Shemos  we read about the beginnings of Jewish slavery in Egypt. One of Pharaoh's main objectives in...

The bulk of  Parshas Vayeishev , and the remainder of the book of Genesis,   is devoted to the story of Joseph in Egypt. After Joseph was s...

The bulk of Parshas Chayei Sarah  deals with the famous story of Eliezer's mission to find a wife for Isaac. The Torah tells us that Ab...

Parshas Nitzavim is a direct continuation from the end of Parshas Ki Savo , which we read last week. The main theme of Ki Savo was the To...

In Parshas Ki Seitzei  we read of the prohibition of cross-dressing ( Deuteronomy  22:5): The vessels of a man shall not be on a woman, a...

Parshas Eikev  opens and closes with two famous passages in which the Torah teaches us that the Jewish people's entire fortune depends ...

Parhas Devarim  begins with the first of Moses' parting addresses to the Jewish people, in which he reviews their history and rebukes t...

In Parshas Mattos  we read of the war that God commanded the Jewish people to wage against the Midianites in vengeance against their effort...

The previous parsha  ended with the the violent act of zealotry of Phinehas, who killed a Jewish man that was engaging in public fornicatio...

In Parshas Shelach  we read about the mitzva  of hafrashas challah  - setting aside a portion of our dough for the Kohanim. The Torah state...

At the end of Parshas Beha'aloscha  (Numbers 12), we read of the incident in which Miriam is punished with tzaraas  for the sin of spea...

The second chapter of Parshas Bamidbar  discusses the division of the Jewish population in the wilderness into four camps, each containing ...