Question: When the aron kodesh was opened for Krias HaTorah this past Shabbos, we realized that the Shekalim Sefer Torah had not been rolled; it was still at the Rosh Chodesh kriah in parshas Pinchos.

Rav Yehoshua Heller suggests that the answer lies in the dramatic shift caused by the golden calf. The commands in parashat Terumah were given before that fall, when the nation still lived with the ...

Today, light is ambient and inexpensive. We leave it on without noticing. Against that backdrop, the requirement of a steady flow of pure oil for the Mishkan’s lighting can easily be underestimated.

Virtual Tikkun allows people to learn and practice chanting Torah using actual images of their synagogue’s scrolls.

This week, as we read Parshas Beshalach, a painful chapter in our national story reached a solemn conclusion. The last of more than two hundred hostages was returned to Israel for Jewish burial. For ...

The reading of the Torah portion “Bo” presents us with a dramatic reality. After seven severe plagues, Pharaoh and Egypt remain stubborn. Three plagues still remain: locusts, darkness, and the killing ...

Minnesota’s Jewish community is speaking out against ICE raids, invoking Torah teachings on welcoming the stranger and mobilizing protests across the Twin Cities. The Hebrews’ flight from Egypt is on ...

Seeach Sod, one of Israel’s leading organizations serving people with intellectual disabilities and autism, has launched a campaign to complete a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to its ...

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For as long as I can remember, the sound of Torah reading has carried something timeless. Whether it was a weekday minyan or a crowded Shabbat morning, those ancient melodies always connected me to ...

Two years ago, on the joyous eve of Simchat Torah, the Hebrew calendar’s exuberant celebration marking the culmination of the annual Torah reading cycle, Hamas shattered the world for Jews everywhere.