The Torah’s final words are especially powerful: lo tukhal l’hitalem—“You may not hide yourself.” One may not hide from the ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...

“When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this ‘Torah’ written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests. Let it remain with him and let him read it all his life, so that he ...

Almost at the very end of the Mishneh Torah, in Laws of Kings and their Wars 11:4 (a passage censored out of most European editions of the Mishneh Torah), the Rambam (Maimonides) describes the tasks ...

Note: The parapet around the roof of a house protects the house. “You shall not place blood in your house": inside the house ...

History doesn’t always advance in light. Sometimes the real beginning happens when the light is gone and you’re left with nothing but night — thick night, the kind that makes the air feel heavier than ...

Devarim seems to recognize the urgency of its message, as the Israelites are about to enter the Land of Israel. Unlike the ...

“You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike. Fear no man, for judgment is God’s. And any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I will hear it” ...

Jeremy Kagan has spent a lifetime bringing stories to the screen, but his latest project is perhaps his most personal. In “Imaging Torah,” a visually striking 25-minute film, the acclaimed director ...