Mount sinai

Parashat Teruma: Sanctifying the heart

Each person is a walking Temple; each has the power to build a dwelling place for the Creator of the world within his or her heart.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Stars bursting above the triangular peak of the mountain that may be Mount Sinai in the middle of the night, in Saudi Arabia.
The Knesset building

Parashat Mishpatim: The long search for moral society

God’s will does more than guide individual behavior. It provides direction for building societies grounded in justice and compassion.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
Former hostage Eitan Mor attends a conference titled “Gaza: The Day After” at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2026.

First values, then holy places: Lesson from Sinai and Jerusalem - opinion

A hostage’s testimony and Parashat Yitro show that the Torah places values before territory.

|ByLEO DEE
The God one seeks is found precisely in the confusing, unclear place.

Parashat Yitro: Illuminating the fog

Moses understood that genuine service of God is not found in thunder and lightning but rather in the place of fog, confusion, and lack of clarity.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

Egypt sees progress in ‘freeing Sinai’ from terror threats

The defeat has been accomplished through local reform, confronting extremist ideas in religious institutions and also shifting educational priorities.

APRIL 6, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

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.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022ByAARON REICH
Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative).

The six most important days in Jewish history

Over 1.2 million days have passed since we left Egypt. To pick just a few days to visit is an impossible task. Yet in my fantasies over the years, I kept settling on the same few days.

JULY 2, 2022ByAHARON E. WEXLER
TOUGHEST HEROES in tears: Rabbi Shlomo Goren sounds the shofar at the liberation of the Western Wall, 1967.

Seeing the speaking mouth: A Jewish approach to the material world

The creative impulse takes on progressively greater shape, finally culminating in the tangible creation of the physical universe

JUNE 16, 2022ByRABBI JAY ROSENBAUM
Sunrise is seen from the summit of Mount Sinai in Egypt.

Shavuot: Between revelation and revolution - comment

In each generation, the Jew has an obligation to follow and interpret the Torah, assuring that the Sinaic tradition will endure and never die out.

MAY 31, 2022ByELI KAVON
JEWS CELEBRATE in Tel Aviv moments after the UN voted to partition Mandatory Palestine, on November 29, 1947. There is little doubt that Judaism would have withered had it not been for the establishment of a Jewish state, says the writer.

Shavuot: The voice of God in the revelation on Sinai

The revelation at Mount Sinai of the Torah remains a mystery as to what exactly happened and what exactly was heard.

MAY 13, 2021ByMICHAEL M. COHEN
MICHELANGELO’S ‘Creation of Adam’ – God as pure thought or reason?

Parashat Yitro: What preceded the receiving of the Torah?

The parasha is called Yitro because it begins with the story of Jethro coming to the Israelites’ encampment.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
MOSES ON Mount Sinai as depicted by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895.

Ancient Christian manuscripts digitized at monastery beneath Mount Sinai

The monastery lies at the foot of Mount Sinai, by tradition the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

APRIL 17, 2019ByREUTERS
Tourists watch the sunrise and pray outside a church on the summit of Mount Moses, near the city of Saint Catherine, in the Sinai Peninsula, south of Egypt, December 9, 2015

Novel Speech

Shvimer-Rothschild: "It is important for us to make our treatment accessible to people around the globe."

JANUARY 22, 2019ByDAVID LEVI REIN
Lilach Shvimer-Rothschild, Co-Founder and COO of NovoTalk.

Non-rabbinic intellectual understanding of the importance of God

JULY 3, 2016ByVLADIMIR MINKOV
The Jerusalem Post