Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

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...

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem t...

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...