Spiritual excellence is irrelevant to the angel of death. And that intensifies the Torah’s tragic ending; a book that in Genesis began with the promise of eternal life for all ends with the ...

Hagar returned and bore Avram’s son Ishma’el at the end of Genesis 16. In Genesis 17, Avram is circumcised, and the covenant ...

From Genesis 12 to the end of Deuteronomy, the Torah focuses on the Jewish people: Abraham, Sarah and their children, their journey into and out of slavery, their covenant with God and with each o ...

If children practice responding to stories in the context of Torah, this will enhance their ability to understand and respond to other books. Therefore, a literacy-based Torah curriculum does not ...

Rabbi Joel Padowitz and Rabbi Jonathan Sassen Mosaica Press After spotting an orange moon just over the horizon on a cold New Hampshire Sukkos night, my daughter asked me about its shocking color.

Find out about The Torah as 11-year-old Charlie meets an expert scribe. Charlie introduces the work of Marc Michaels, a scribe, who writes Torah scrolls by hand, showing how these holy words are ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A West Bank rabbi who co-authored “The King’s Torah,” a treatise on halachah, or Jewish law, that discusses situations in which Jews are permitted to kill non-Jews ...

Here's a guide to the upcoming holiday: The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible ... to one of the dead and ...

Some read aloud the names of all the fallen in ... the holiday joy for the completion of the Torah cycle to which we’re devoted.” The Five Books of Moses have 5,845 verses that each contain ...