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 ...

Originally a Hebrew rabbinic tale, its Yiddish translation appeared in various textbooks of the Yiddish afternoon schools ...

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

Will the new year be better than the previous horrible one? It’s hard to believe that it won’t be, given the last year’s continuous warfare. At this juncture, Israel has ruptured Hamas in Gaza and ...

I know this – if we are going to write the next chapter of Jewish life post October 7th, we need our young families not only ...

For about an hour on Sunday morning two weeks ago, they read excerpts from a four-page handout that contained various quotes ...

Celebrations for the Jewish harvest festival Sukkot typically involve the etrog (or citron) fruit along with myrtle boughs, ...

Many Icelandic tours focus on mountain huts in the highlands. A booth in downtown Reykjavik, the Nordic country’s lone sukkah ...