“One cannot fail to be gripped with fascination when reading this book.” Each Torah portion includes a line-by-line analysis, with Shoff sometimes bringing in multiple sources to provide insight ...
The Book of Genesis, an English translation of the Torah filled with insights from centuries of Jewish thought, has captured the attention of both religious and secular audiences, prompting Open ...
The reason the book carries this range of approbations is because it cuts across typical boundaries, blending traditional approaches to the development of the Oral Torah or Torah she-baal peh with ...
Simchat Torah is a day associated with memories and the day we have been dreading since last year, when rumors started to emerge from the butchery that was happening in the south, on one of the ...
the fifth and last book in the Torah, and begin the annual cycle again with the Book of Genesis. During the seven hakafot, or rounds of celebration, select congregants carry the Torah scrolls and ...
I am not looking forward to Simchat Torah, which is the yahrzeit for the more than 1200 children, women and men who were massacred by Hamas. Despite Yahya Sinwar’s death, a year after October ...