When we read the story of Korach, our attention tends to be focused on the rebels. We don’t give as much reflection as we might

The 12 men sent by Moses to explore the land of Israel came back with a wholly misleading report. They said: “We cannot go up

In this week’s parsha, Moses has a breakdown. It is the lowest emotional ebb of his entire career as a leader. Listen to his words

The parsha of Naso seems, on the face of it, to be a heterogeneous collection of utterly unrelated items. First, there is the account of

Bamidbar is usually read on the Shabbat before Shavuot. So the Sages connected the two. Shavuot is the time of the giving of the Torah.

I argued in my Covenant and Conversation for Parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one

The parsha of Emor contains a chapter dedicated to the festivals of the Jewish year. There are five such passages in the Torah. Two, both

I had been engaged in dialogue for two years with an Imam from the Middle East, a gentle and seemingly moderate man. One day, in

At the risk of disclosing a spoiler, I would like to begin this week’s “Covenant and Conversation” by discussing the 2019 film, “A Beautiful Day

Shemini tells the tragic story of how the great inauguration of the Tabernacle—a day about which the Sages said that God rejoiced as much as

Our parsha, which deals with a variety of sacrifices, devotes an extended section to the chattat, the sin offering, as brought by different individuals: first

Pekudei has sometimes been called “The Accountant’s Parsha,” because that is how it begins, with the audited accounts of the money and materials donated to