It takes creativity to embrace an invisible God. It takes strength to worship a God who exists, who lives, but who does not ...

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

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

Not only do Moses’s kinsmen, the tribe of Levi, kill 3000 people, but to add insult to injury God also gets into the act and ...

The ninth weekly biblical reading in Exodus, Ki Tissa (30:11-34:35), tells us significant details about God, the Torah, and the Shabbat, revealing deep meaning and significance that should affect our ...

Among non-Orthodox Jews, a bar mitzvah often marks the last day a boy takes his Judaism seriously. It serves as a graduation rather than an initiation day. The parents of the boy evidently regard ...

Critics of our people point to the stiff-necked, weak-willed character of our forebears. At the time, perhaps it was an ...

Rashi in Pasuk יא tells us that this whole move from Moshe was only after Yom Kippur, as the 3 sets of 40 days with Moshe on Har Sinai only ended on Yom Kippur. The tent renained until the Mishkan was ...

Parshah Ki Tisa is a particularly sobering portion of the Torah. It recounts the episode of the Golden Calf, as the ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

However there was one sense that had always been pure – that was the most subtle and intangible of senses – the sense of ...