After all the work was put into constructing all the parts toward the assemblage of the Mishkan, the Bnei Yisrael had a serious problem: Rashi,

Michael Rothschild owned a small business and was running the Chofetz Chaim Foundation on the side for six years. He came to feel it required

The book of Shemot, which will be concluded this Shabbat, was referred to by our Chazal as the Book of Redemption, or “Sefer Hageulah.” The

The epic project of constructing a Mishkan was an unprecedented feat of human engineering and creativity. Instead of delivering a ready-made, heavenly prepared structure, God

In Sefer Devarim, Parshas Ekev (10:12), Moshe Rabbeinu says to the Jewish people: וְעַתָּה֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מָ֚ה ה׳ אֱלֹקיךָ שֹׁאֵ֖ל מֵעִמָּ֑ךְ כִּ֣י אִם־לְ֠יִרְאָה אֶת־ה׳ אֱלֹקיךָ “Now,

In the early ‘80s, my rosh yeshiva from Yeshiva Ner Yaakov, Rabbi Yehoshua Liff, was a newly married young man learning in the Mir Yeshiva.

Moshe Rabbeinu calls in the Bnei Yisrael for a serious huddle-up. He begins to speak to them about the topic of Shabbat, as well as

The Torah repeatedly refers to the artisans who crafted the Tabernacle (Mishkan) as the wise-hearted men and women. These were the men and women who

The mitzvah of Shabbat is so seminal that it surfaces in five different parshiyot in Sefer Shemot. Among these “appearances” is the discussion of Shabbat

Going for the gold on this one was not in their best interest. The Sin of the Golden Calf was one of the most detrimental

Having already delineated the structural components of the Mishkan, in Parshat Tetzaveh the Torah depicts the wardrobe of the kohanim. By way of introduction, the

During the time of the first Beit Hamikdash, Chavakuk beseached Hashem that death be eliminated from the Jewish people (see Midrash Rabbah 38:2). He quoted