The major part of our Torah portion, Mishpatim, raises important questions about Judaism, religion in general, ethics, and law. First, the nature of Judaism. Many of our philosophers have divided ...

Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of the Torah; and know how to answer an apikores, and know before whom you toil, and that your employer is faithful, for He will pay you the reward of your ...

Week by week, portion by portion, we began making our way through the five books of Moses, and then the books of the prophets and the sacred writings. Being a rabbinical student, Torah study was ...

In studying historical interpretations of Torah, we find it is no small matter to seek out a way of living in obedience to the Commandments of God.

Sara Wolkenfeld, the chief learning officer of the online database of Jewish text, reflects on a decade of free, open-source learning. With one search I found a helpful list of sources featuring ...

JERUSALEM — Walk the streets of Jerusalem on any given weekday morning, and you will discover there’s no shortage of intensive Torah study in this city that symbolizes the beating heart of the Jewish ...

So I spoke to him of my love for Torah. I then told him that when I was a little girl, they didn’t let women become a rabbi. His immediate response was: “Why? That’s so mean!” I laughed -so astonished ...

Never did I imagine, as a preppy high school student at a Protestant boarding school, that my spiritual journey would lead me to serious Torah study. At my bat mitzvah, despite several years of Hebrew ...

Q: Is there an obligation that every Jew have a library of sacred books in his home? A: Indeed, there is an obligation. To explain the commandment, we begin with the fact that the Torah commanded ...

Rabbi Dov Lando, a leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbi, spoke Tuesday night at the Or Elchanan Yeshiva in Jerusalem, addressing the cancellation of the official draft-exampt "yeshiva student" status and ...