Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

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

Some time ago, I received the following series of questions from a (non-Jewish) college student from a course she was taking. These were q...

On the Ninth of Av it was decreed on our fathers that they would not enter the Land (of Israel) [ Bamidbar 14], the Temple was destroyed t...

The three weeks that begin on the  17 th  of Tamuz   and end on Tisha B’Av are a period of mourning for the Jewish people. It was during t...

One of the tragic events of the 17 th of Tamuz was the interruption of the korban tamid  (the daily offering of two sheep in the Temple)....

The Seventeenth of Tamuz is the anniversary of several tragic events in Jewish history. The luchot were broken on this day when Moses...

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 ...

In  Parshas Behar  we read (Leviticus 25:17): ולא תונו איש את עמיתו ויראת מאלקיך כי אני ה' אלקיכם: “And you shall not hurt the feel...