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

This week’s Torah reading juxtaposes two seemingly unconnected mitzvos. The Torah tells us about the Nazir – a person who took a particular oath and then needed to abstain from wine, from cutting ...

How do Moses and Isaac connect to academia and barn dancing? To answer, I’d like to quote my favorite and most oft-cited dvar Torah, which is from this week’s parsha. It starts with a concisely ...

And you complained in your tents and said: "because Hashem hates us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Emori to destroy us." (Dvarim 1:27) This is related ...

The festival of Shavuot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Here is how this week’s sedra describes and defines it: From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, ...

Ha’azinu is the song Moshe sings to the people on the last day of his life. He tells them what he wants them to most remember, as they go on with their lives, and he finishes with these words: For it ...

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 optimist says, “This is the best of all worlds.” The pessimist says, “You’re right!” As we enter 2015 there is much for which we can be thankful: our lives, our health (hopefully), our families, ...

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 ...