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

Women and Kiddush While the Gemara (Brachot 20b) states that women are obligated in kiddush, it does not discuss whether they are obligated in Havdala.

The Holocaust should not be conflated with the painful memories of October 7. Though both mark unimaginable Jewish suffering, they are not the same. The

A few months before Pesach, my wife was already looking for toys and presents to buy for our grandchildren for their Afikomen presents. I remember

The period of Sefirat HaOmer links Pesach to Matan Torah and includes the days of commemoration of our present-day miraculous return to Zion, creating an

Rav Yehuda Amital, zt”l was a unique visionary and builder of Torah. After his family was killed in Auschwitz, Rav Amital came to Eretz Yisrael,

In the Haftorah of Parshat Shemini (II Samuel, chapter 6), we witness a powerful and perplexing episode in the life of King David. After years

Parshat Shemini Like the episode found in our parsha, our haftarah relates the story of a very special day—a day of celebration for Israel, when

Strength and Vulnerability In addition to helping us subdue our enemies, physical and military strength also deters adversaries and allows us to live without fear.

In Makkot 5a, Rava might be worried about a flying camel. He says: “If two witnesses say, ‘Ploni killed someone on Sunday morning in Sura,’

“And it was on the eighth day … ” So begins our parsha of Shemini, which describes the tragic death of the tzaddikim Nadav and

The first pasuk of Shemini has a funny thing to say, it says the Mishkan was opened on the eighth day. That statement says an