Parashat Mishpatim: All or nothing
Loyalty to a path means saying, “I belong. Sometimes I will fail, sometimes I will err, but I am all in.” This is completely different from saying “I like this, but I don’t like that.”
Torah Portion
Parashat Mishpatim: The long search for moral society
Parashat Yitro: Illuminating the fog
Parashat Yitro: Before the revelation at Sinai
What honoring our parents teaches us about faith, logic, and Judaism
The mitzvah of honoring one's parents is not a narrow religious demand but a foundational moral duty.
Parashat Beshalach's lessons on unity, shared risk, and IDF service
A segment of Israeli society – largely comprising traditional, Religious-Zionist, and secular Jews – carries the overwhelming weight of military service.
Parashat Beshalach: The joy of ‘mitzvot’
Recounting for the first time the story of an entire people who, after long years of harsh and grueling bondage, emerge into freedom.
Parashat Bo: Jeremiah’s timeless promise to Israel
Empires crumble, pain persists, yet Israel survives; Jeremiah’s words offer reassurance across generations.
Parashat Bo: The world is catching up, again
'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' was a crude forgery that peddled the myth of a clandestine Jewish cabal manipulating institutions under the guise of doing good.
Parashat Bo: Promises must be kept
Keeping promises is the foundation of trust between people, of educating children, and of building a moral future.
The high price of not listening: What Pharaoh teaches us about power and humility
Pharaoh ignored every warning until his nation collapsed. His mistake isn’t ancient, it’s painfully familiar today.
Parashat Va'era: Between Pharaoh and Persia, pride before a fall
The Iranian regime, like Pharaoh, has long encouraged the belief that it is untouchable. Yet the protests reveal a profound rupture between the state and the society it purports to lead.
Parashat Va’era: Why being good is the secret strength we forget
Why does Moses step aside for Aaron during the first plagues? The answer reveals a profound Torah teaching about humility and gratitude.
The return of the lost Jews - and the ‘great shofar’
'On that day, a great shofar shall be sounded, and those lost in the land of Assyria and those who were cast off in the land of Egypt shall come, and they shall bow to the Lord in Jerusalem.'
