The Challenges and Joys of Parenting
Nov 25, 2006 By Steven Brown | Commentary | Toledot
Parshat Toledot is the epitome of the challenges, struggles, ambivalences, and joys of parenting.
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Dawkins and a Deeper Level of Faith
Nov 18, 2006 By Marc Wolf | Commentary | Hayyei Sarah
In his introduction, Richard Dawkins articulates his goal in writing The God Delusion: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down” (5).
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Examining the Word Moriah
Nov 11, 2006 By Robert Harris | Commentary | Vayera
Years ago, in a national television program called Laugh In (yes, I lived during the Stone Age 鈥� the Rolling Stone Age. Never mind.), a comedian lampooned the song “They Called the Wind Moriah” from the Broadway show Paint Your Wagon.
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Appreciating Our Blessings
Nov 3, 2006 By David Hoffman | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
Imagine the following request: leave your home, your family, everything that you know and cherish and go 鈥� completely walk away from the world of your ancestors.
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Redemption: Israel’s Partnership with God
Mar 31, 2007 By Eliezer B. Diamond z”l | Commentary | Shabbat Hagadol
The first teaching attributed to Hillel in Tractate Avot is the following: “Be one of Aaron’s disciples, one who loves peace and pursues it, one who loves one’s fellow human beings and brings them near to the Torah.”
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A Personal Relationship to Torah
Feb 3, 2007 By Marc Wolf | Commentary | Beshallah
In his parashah commentary several weeks ago on the beginning of the book of Exodus, our Chancellor-elect Arnold Eisen shared what I consider one of my favorite texts.
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Whose Revelation Is It, Anyway?
Jan 29, 2016 By Stephen P. Garfinkel | Commentary | Yitro
Parashat Yitro is a Torah reading of monumental ideas, foundational concepts, and widely-recognized importance. By all measures, this week鈥檚 portion must be considered a highlight of the entire Torah, since it includes no less (and a lot more!) than the Ten Commandments. This seems to be the right place to explore questions such as these: what did the actual revelation (Exodus 20) include? What were God鈥檚 commandments? Why were these statements singled out, especially given the amount of law scattered throughout the Torah? What gives these brief pronouncements their distinctive importance?
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The Poetry of Forgiveness
Sep 30, 2006 By Stephen P. Garfinkel | Commentary | Shabbat Shuvah
Poetry is the soul of religion.
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