In memory of Martin Luther King Jr., who taught us how to go forward. Our rabbis teach us in a midrash that when God created trees, they were full of pride because of their towering stature. Then God ...

It is December, and things are ending. Students get their papers in and prep for finals. Retailers push for a sales rush to declare a good year. Our northern world grows darker, daylight shorter. The ...

Part of this openness to miracles comes from the Hebrew understanding of the concept ‘duty calls’. In English this call appears to be coming from afar. In order to hear this call we ourselves have to ...

Moses parting the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to escape the Egyptians may not have been a miracle after all, a new study suggests. The parting of the Red Sea appears in the Book of Exodus in The ...

On our journey with Moses to Canaan, we must bear in mind that God’s plan of redemption for eternal life was always in mind.

In the opening verse of Bereishit, Rashi asks perhaps the most famous question in all of Torah: why does the Torah begin with the story of Creation? If its primary purpose is to convey commandments, ...