Explore the significance of Jacob's dream in the Torah portion Vayetze, featuring the intriguing stairway to heaven.

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There are 4 cups of wine. Drink them all. Drink them all at once if you can. It is going to be a long night. There is a lot of Hebrew and it is in song form. Then all the people give their commentary, ...

In the midst of Moshe Rabbeinu's retelling of what transpired at maamad Har Sinai, he declares to Am Yisrael the famous moving pasuk (4:35), "Ata hareita ladaat ki Hashem Hu Ha-Elokim, Ein Od Milvado.

One of the great tragedies of our times is the terrible conflict that exists between different streams of Jews. Three times last year, a Reform synagogue in Ra'anana was vandalized by overly-zealous ...

Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. This week’s Torah portion is Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32:1 – 52 Nobody likes to be criticized. In my fifth year of rabbinic school, I was required to write and deliver a ...

Everybody who knows the Passover Seder knows the famous text of “Why is this night different from all other nights”. Some may even recall that there are four such expressions and even a few of us may ...

The Torah is the most sacred Jewish book. Yet even many people like me, who had to read passages at their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs, have never really read it. Many have “stumbled through the Tibetan Book ...