The commandment to build a sukkah using waste has a surprising dual meaning: It encourages us to seek more balance in our ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.

Each Torah portion includes a line-by-line analysis, with Shoff sometimes bringing in multiple sources to provide insights.

If Jews in the midst of battle in Sinai, persecuted by the Soviets in Moscow, or surrounded by death at Auschwitz celebrated ...

The Talmud also shares quite a few stories of some of the most famous sages, including people like Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Akiva, who were subjected to serious temptations of this nature and barely ...

the essence of Torah is now in the hands of mankind, with God’s wisdom and words sanctified through our own discovery. The Talmud further reinforces this notion of human authority, albeit within ...

19 percent.) Dauber touches on the Torah and Talmud, Jonathan Swift and Franz Kafka, Spanish-Jewish poetry and wit and medieval Purim plays, Mad magazine and Philip Roth, the Haskalah ...

Every seven years, immediately after the Sabbatical year, on the first of the intermediate days of Sukkot, the Israelites ...

The first volume of Steinsaltz’s Koren Talmud Bavli is being launched in conjunction with Shavuot, which commemorates the day the Torah was given to the Jewish people. The complete set will ...