Moses

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.

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The encounter at the burning bush lays the bedrock of monotheism. Illustrative.

Parashat Shemot: Learning God

 The numerical rise of the Israelites aroused fear in Pharaoh. Illustrative.

Parashat Shemot: The continuity of the world

MIKVEH IN Auckland, New Zealand.

Yom Kippur: The end or the beginning?


Rabbi Pinto: “The Book of Deuteronomy is the greatest book of ethics”

In light of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto’s renewed calls, many of his students joined the initiative to read the Book of Deuteronomy.


Parashat Beshalah: Searching for passion

Without our own passion and sacrifice, we have little to demand from the future. Don’t fear hardships or sacrifice – they will lead us to nobility and passion. 

 THE TORAH refers to Moshe’s hands as ‘hands of faith.’

Parashat Va’eira: Fact-checking

The small act of improving Moses’s speaking abilities would have gone a long way toward improving his ambitious agenda, yet God preserved Moses’s speech impediment.

 FEWER BULLHORNS, more introspection.

The Jewish leaders leading the Jewish people - then and now - opinion

Living in modern Israel is like living in a real-time ongoing Talmudic dispute.

 RIME MINISTER Yair Lapid arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem

Rosh Hashanah: ‘For my sake the world was created’

Each individual has the power and potential to change the world. Indeed, throughout Jewish history there were many individuals who literally changed the course of Jewish history.

 YOU – THE reason the world exists.

What are the Ten Commandments in the Bible? - explainer

The Ten Commandments have a central place in Judaism and Jewish history, given by God and Moses at Mount Sinai. Here's what you need to know about them.

 Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative).

Parashat Pinchas: Four comments on leadership

Humility, dedication to the nation’s needs, tolerance and taking responsibility are the traits of an ideal leader, as Rashi taught us based on the words of the Torah.

 MOSES ASKS God to appoints a new leader for the nation so they ‘will not be like sheep without a shepherd.’

Passover 2022: A Ukraine Chabad rabbi's Exodus - opinion

How can matzah, made from the most simplistic of ingredients, be intertwined so profoundly with our faith and heritage?

 RABBI YOSSI GLICK accompanies two girls from the Chabad Ukraine Orphanage on a plane from Romania to Israel following their 22-hour train journey to Romania.

Parashat Vayikra: Every person has a name

The way that God turns to Moses teaches us how to behave in our own relationships.

 SCRIBES FINISH writing a Torah scroll.

Jews of Egypt, Europe were bound by mental enslavement - opinion

The Hebrews in Egypt during Moses’s time, and the Jews in Europe during Herzl’s time, failed to envision the path to freedom.

 Strawberry Fields, New York City.