Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

Parshas Terumah deals with the construction of the Mishkan - the desert Tabernacle - and its vessels. The construction of the Mishkan is p...

A few years ago, while I was teaching in Politz Day School, we were studying  Eilu Metzios , one of the chapters of the Talmudic tractate, B...

In Parshas Mishpatim  we read (Exodus 21:18-19): And if men fight, and one strikes the other, whether with a stone or with a fist, and he...

Parshas Yisro begins with words, “וישמע יתרו” - “And Jethro heard.” Sitting in Midian, the exciting and dramatic news came, “all that God ...

The Talmud ( Rosh Hashana 1:1) tells us that the fifteenth of Shvat is the “ Rosh HaShana ” (New Year) for trees. The commentaries explain...

One of the basic principles of Judaism is that when God gave the written text of the Torah to Moses at Sinai, He also gave over to Moses an ...

Anyone who has taught in a Jewish day school knows that (starting from about seventh grade) one of the most difficult things to teach is ...

The following question was once posed in an on-line discussion I participated in, to which I wrote the following answer. I have rewritten th...

At its most basic level, Judaism is about just one thing: Connecting with God. God created us so that we could enter into a relationship wi...

This topic came up recently in a conversation with a friend, in which I laid out my thoughts on the role of these arguments vis-à-vis  David...