Moses

Parashat Devarim: Always relevant

The Torah remains unchanged, yet its message can be expressed anew in the language, challenges, and circumstances of every generation.

SEVENTY LANGUAGES?
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, learning at the Har Etzion yeshiva he led, 2014. He was awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish Religious Literature that same year.

Like Moses, Israel needs leaders who understand different perspectives - opinion

GIOVANI DOS SANTOS (L) of Club America fights for the ball with Luis Reyes (R) of Atlas during the 7th round match between in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2021.

Your Investments: Like elite World Cup teams, profitable portfolios require consistent work

Shining: Moon rises behind the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem.

Parashat Pinchas: What Joshua learned from Moses about true leadership


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.

From Moses to Herzl: Acquiring the knowledge in front of your eyes

Internalizing the lessons from Moses’s exodus, Herzl understood that transformations need to happen gradually – he referred to those 40 years in the desert as “education through migration.”

 Knowledge is there – we need to see it.

Lifting the veil: Meet Dorothy Tiano Melvin

“I felt in bondage to depression over my mother’s death, and I felt I needed to break those bonds.”

 Dorothy (Rafaelah) Tiano Melvin, 70, from Los Angeles to Safed, 2020

Parashat Ki Tavo: Joy – the key to victory

The fact that bad things can come from God and affect His nation when it does not follow His path presents a difficult theological problem for people who believe in a benevolent and righteous God.

Jethro and Moses (watercolor circa 1900 by James Tissot).

What do the American Revolution, Moses and Herzl have in common?

Unlike in Herzl’s France, Israel’s stability is provided by that secret formula planted in Deuteronomy by Moses: Political delegation.

 The Israel Museum's Wine Festival showcased the revived Israeli wine industry this past week

Parashat Ekev: Your gift or God’s?

The Land of Israel, like all the goods of this world, is God’s gift, but the people must still fight to deserve it.

THE ARCHEOLOGICAL site of the City of David. ‘The only people for whom the Land of Israel has ever been their national kingdom are the Jews’

Parashat Ekev: Gratitude and showing favor

In this week’s Torah portion, we continue reading Moses’s final speeches, addresses meant to prepare the Jewish nation for entering, conquering and living in Israel.

Moses Shows the Elders the Tablets of the Law by Marc Chagall, 1966

Parashat Devarim: The beginning of history

The Torah is insistent that no human is perfect, and it is in the rough and tumble of daily life that we show our spiritual striving.

REMBRANDT'S MOSES with the Ten Commandments

Parashat Devarim: God as Moses’s temporary student

In this week’s parasha, Devarim, Moses focused on the years when the Jewish nation wandered in the desert and on the trials and tribulations they experienced there.

Moses leading the Children of Israel across the Red Sea from the ‘American Heritage Haggadah’ by David Geffen, Gefen Publishers 1992