Torah

From Saul's failure to David's reckoning, 'Human Kingship' examines the dangers of power - review

Rabbi David Silber's Human Kingship rereads the Book of Samuel to ask what restrains a ruler when no tribunal can remove him, and whether justice can survive unchecked power.

KING DAVID, a detail of the early 16th-century marble statue by Michelangelo,   kept at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy.
 THE TWIN Towers burn

‘You are standing today’: A Jewish lesson for America, 25 years after 9/11

WOMEN STAND in prayer at the Kotel.

Israel after Oct. 7: What Moses teaches us about survival and responsibility

MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY: Young Israelis who completed military service help farmers like Giora Isar from Moshav Maaleh Gamla at the height of the mango-picking season, near the Sea of Galilee, Aug. 4.

Parashat Nitzavim: Why we are all responsible for one another


Parashat Eikev: With respect for the past

Moses shattered the Tablets, yet their fragments were preserved beside the new ones. Their message endures, what appears broken can still carry holiness, meaning, and strength.

 Moses is seen breaking the Tablets after coming down from Mount Sinai.

Parashat Eikev: The things we step on

Parshat Eikev teaches that the greatest threats to our values begin not with rejecting them, but with neglecting the small practices that keep them alive.

REMBRANDT'S MOSES with the Ten Commandments

Twelve Torah scrolls stolen in targeted antisemitic break-in at synagogue near Paris

"It was with shock and anger that I learned this morning that the Jewish community of Levallois had been struck at what is most sacred and precious to it," said Levallois Mayor Agnès Pottier-Dumas.

Synagogue ACCIL.

On Shabbat Nachamu, Isaiah reminds us that human power is just an illusion

Isaiah declares, “Behold, the nations are as a drop from a bucket, and are regarded as the dust on the scales... All the nations are as nothing before Him” (Isaiah 40:15,17).

Every generation has its super powers.

Your Investments: Financial independence starts with work, not wishful thinking

Follow the process of living within your means, saving and investing, and being good stewards with whatever money you have merited, and you can achieve financial independence.

AN OLD olive tree in the town of Bar, southern Montenegro, earlier this month.

Parashat Va'ethanan: The positive within the negative

The Ten Commandments are not an independent list of fundamental principles, but rather the nucleus from which the entire Torah unfolds - its genetic code.

Moses on Sinai (Le tables de Loi judaique), 1773. Artist Simon Julien.

Parashat Va'ethanan: Behind the curtain

At Sinai, the people were instructed to remain outside the boundary. In the Sanctuary, the holiest place stood behind a curtain.

Modern culture has gradually eroded many boundaries.

Senior rabbi claims comments attacking religious Zionists' IDF service were misinterpreted

"We may encounter people who differ from our way of life, and it is imperative to be careful of any arguments with them regarding our differing views," he stated at a conference for community rabbis.

Rabbi Dov Lando, head of the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak arrives to deliver a lesson at the Mir Yeshiva, in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, September 19, 2023.

Israel just gave Torah study a constitution. It should have given its soldiers one - opinion

Without Torah, there would be no Jewish people. Without the Jewish people, there is no State of Israel. That is precisely why what the Knesset has done is so offensive.

 NETZAH YEHUDA soldiers at the dedication of a Torah scroll at the Erez Crossing.

Israel is winning the World Cup of public diplomacy by aiding earthquake-hit Venezuela - opinion

How Israel’s delegation in Venezuela shined a positive light at a tough time for Israel’s image.

EARTHQUAKE AID: Hector Gonzalez is helped out of a tunnel in La Guaira, Venezuela, July 10; Illustrative.