The Temple period was a different time, which I’m now thinking about in rhyme.   Back then animal sacrifices seemed sublime, but now some people

“Sacrifice” is the way korban is translated, but this is wrong, imprecise, outdated.   Here’s some news and it may sound odd: A korban is

When the Mishkan was finally done credit was given to everyone But not every person was an artisan who built Some people might have even

According to the midrash, the way Hashem frames, choosing Betzalel is by taking a book of names. The book—we’re told—in homiletic hyperbole, listed every person

As the instructions for the Mishkan unfold, “Bring olive oil for the Menorah,” we are told.   If the oil’s metaphors are something we see,

A. Pirkei Avot says that for three things creation was planned, on these three pillars the world continues to stand   The first is Torah,

We’re told Yitro heard all God did for Moshe and for His people, how He took them out from Egypt in a way that was

God takes the Jews from Egypt, splits the sea for them, does protective things like that, again and again.   They complain about water, Hashem

God and Moshe tell the Jews to take; of this command what are we to make? They’re told to take from the Egyptians before they

Regarding Moshe’s calling, Hashem has several things to say, Within this undertaking, there are numerous points at play. When God first called on Moshe, it

Moshe went out to his brothers one day, and viewed a struggle that was at play: An Egyptian was ruthlessly beating a Jew; Moshe felt

The ruler of Egypt keeps asking these strange men, “How is your father?” And they share, again and again. And then in Vayigash things take