The great collection of rabbinic aphorisms known as Pirkei Avot – or Sayings of our Ancestors – includes this statement: “al tis-ta-kel ba-kankan e-lah be-mah she-yesh bo – don’t look at the jug [...]

“And the Eternal appeared to him by the terebinths of Mamre; he was sitting at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.” ~ Genesis 18:1 This is the opening line of parshat Vayera, named [...]

Parshat Lech L’cha begins a journey. It is not just the journey of a single individual, Abraham; nor is it just the journey of his family. The story that we begin this week, does not end this [...]

This week’s Torah reading, Parshat Noah, contains the famous account of the great flood. Just one week after we read about the creation of the world, God decided that the sins of humankind had [...]