The English Chumash that presents a multitude of interpretations from all generations that sold 10,000 copies in a less than ...

Under the wedding canopy, the bride circles the groom seven times. Why seven — and why even do this at all? And is there ...

Jews around the world are attempting a difficult spiritual straddle this week: how to celebrate the joyous holiday of Simchat ...

We need to seek a middle path between the usual joy of Simchat Torah and the mourning necessitated by the disaster of Simchat ...

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 ...

Simchat Torah arrives this week. Here's why North Jersey Jews consider it one of their happiest holidays — but also, this ...

There is no chronological order in the Torah is an expression used by many Bible commentators when they encounter events which are out of chronological order. In rabbinic analysis, the issue of ...

“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 world in which we live is an avenue to the spiritual; we can access the spiritual, transcendent world through the physical world because the two are intimately and intrinsically connected.

What if the Book of Genesis had a female God who created the world ... a regendered version of the Hebrew Bible that I’ve been developing with a growing community in the U.S. and Israel. Toratah means ...

He is the author of the forthcoming book from Ben Bella Books, "God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah Is True." ...

In rabbinical school, I personally and others took more classes in Talmud and halacha than in Torah. I did have year-long and semester-long classes in each of the five books of the Torah ...