Hearing the Silent Aleph -   Vayakhel   ©️Rabbi Mordecai Finley, 2025 This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of ...

If there is a message for this Purim, for this moment in history, it is this the story of the Jewish people is not just a ...

When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written ...

Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative). (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Likewise, The Torah spotlights our treatment of other vulnerable members of society, such as orphans and widows ...

This week’s Torah portion is a story of forgiveness and the opportunity to make things right. The opening sentence tells it ...

Why the Ten Commandments? They are found only in the Judeo-Christian literature. Also, they are being glaringly disobeyed by the two most powerful Jewish and Christian nations, the United States ...

This week’s Parshah, Parshas Mishpatim, marks the switch of the Torah offering a narrative of many of the events that had preceded the giving of the ten commandments; from henceforth ...

The Qur’an refers to this incident: “We raised the Mountain over you saying: Hold firm to what we have given you, and study its commandments; so that you may attain piety towards God, (as God lovers) ...

When Moses comes down from Mount Sinai, he’s holding the rules by which they were to live and sees this golden calf party.

orthodox and ultra-orthodox Jews do their best to learn the Torah and keep the commandments given by God to the Jewish people. Kosher food, Sabbath observance, prayers, etc., are central to their ...