Parashat Lech Lecha
Bereishit 11:30 Now Sarai was barren, she had no child (ein la vlad). Bereishit 12:1 The LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land […]Parashat Bereishit
Bereishit 1:1-2
When God began to create heaven and earth — being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and wind from God sweeping over the […]
Torah Study 5780
Avivah Zornberg’s approach to studying Torah is significantly different from what we have done in past years, although she uses Midrash extensively. Her interest is not historical, nor is it […]
Parshat Haazinu 5780
Devarim 32:1-2 (Robert Alter, trans.)
Give ear, O heavens, that I may speak, and let the earth hear my mouth’s utterance. Let my teaching drop like rain, my saying flow […]
Parshat Vayelech 5780
Devarim 31: 6
Be strong and of good courage, be not in fear of them; for the LORD your God Himself marches with you: He will not fail you or […]
Parshat Nitzavim
Devarim 30:1-3
When all these things befall you — the blessing and the curse that I have set before you — and you take them to heart amidst the various […]
Parshat Ki Tavo
Devarim 27:26
Cursed be he who will not uphold the terms of this Teaching and observe them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Rashi
Here he [Moses] included […]
Parshat Ki Teitze
Rabbi Steinsaltz examines the diverse mitzvot found in this parasha and finds that their peculiarities, mystifying jumps in significance and moral contradictions overwhelm attempts to systematize and reduce them to […]
Parshat Shoftim
Devarim 18:13
You must be wholehearted (tamim) with the LORD your God.
Rashi
walk before him wholeheartedly, put your hope in Him and do not attempt to investigate the […]
Parshat Re’eh
Devarim 12:1
These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land …
Rabbi Steinsaltz repeats a theme that we’ve encountered before with him. Settling […]