It is in your mouth, and in your heart - and in the oven of Akhnai
Parashat Nitzavim
In this week’s Torah portion, t...
Happiness is not experienced before entry into the promised land
That surprised me - and I spend a lot of my time study...
Where is the Love in the Five Books of Moses?
The Hebrew word for love, from the root aleph-heh-vet, or ahav, is not fo...
Numbers 25 – Israel at Shittim and the Pinchas Episode
In Numbers 25 the Israelites are in Shittim, which is the last s...
The Fiery Snakes of Numbers 21:5-9
Practical magic or retrospective justification?
The Torah portion called ...
The Bible Discourages Territorial Expansion
Judaism is not a territorially expansionist religion. It is different in th...
A Thought on Parashat Be'ha'alotcha
Ignoring the Biblical Editor
Finalizing the Biblical Text
We know fro...
A Survey of Civil versus Religious Authority in Jewish Law
Dina de-Malkhuta Dina
from the Mishna to the Shulchan Aruch...
The Enigmatic Man of Time
The first section of Acharei Mot deals with the physical rituals of the Yom Kippur observance...