Commenting on one of his own lectures, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.” We ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

In contrast to the simple reading that sees the five books of the Torah as continuing one after the other, we find that the continuation of the Book of Exodus is found in the two books that follow.

Analia Bortz is a medical doctor with postdoctoral studies in Bioethics. She became the first female Latin American rabbi when she was ordained in Jerusalem at the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano ...

With this week’s double parsha, with its long account of the construction of the sanctuary — one of the longest narratives in the Torah, taking a full 13 chapters — comes to a magnificent climax: Then ...

The Tabernacle, (whose work is brought to completion in this week's double Torah reading of Vayakhel-Pekudei), and Shabbat, are the twin pillars of our existence. Sanctifying the dimensions of time ...

The opening words of the sidra (Torah reading) describe the sanctuary as “the tabernacle of testimony – mishkan ha-edut” (Ex. 38:21). Ibn Ezra and Sforno understand “testimony” as the two tablets of ...

A central biblical term that records the final review of the work done to finish the Tabernacle and priestly garments – is the word pekudei (Exodus 38:21). A key to understanding a word in the Torah ...