There is a deep, ongoing tension within Am Yisrael regarding which tribe represents the proper approach to the Shechina, and ...

When we read the end of Bereshit followed by the beginning of Noach, we notice that God gets upset twice, and twice makes a decree to destroy humanity, with the exception of Noach and his family. The ...

Rashi famously begins his commentary to Sefer Bereshit with the words of a midrash: Rabbi Yitzchak said, “The Torah should have begun with Kiddush Ha-Chodesh (Sanctification of the New Month), which ...

From the blog of Nathan Lopes Cardozo at The Times of Israel ...

Parashat Bereshit lays the foundations for universal human existence. It is not about the Jewish people alone but about all of humanity and the reality in which we exist. In times as difficult as ...

We start again this Shabbat at the beginning with Bereshit. The universe is created out of nothingness by God. “The earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind ...

And so we take in again from the top: “In the beginning….” Bear this in mind: Jewish time is not linear – not in the sad, fatalistic sense of the word. Nor is it circular, coming back around upon ...

SANTA BARBARA — Feted by the New York Philharmonic, prominent at the hotshot Salzburg and Lucerne summer festivals and about to become the next music director of the celebrated Ensemble ...