Well, it certainly gives people with a lot of time on their hands something to do. For sure, “Hafoch ba vahafoch ba d’chola ba – Turn and turn in it [Torah] because everything is in it” (Avot 5:22).
A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: When you borrow a Sefer Torah and it gets damaged, are you liable like any other borrower, or does the mitzvah of lending Torah change ...
(JTA) — When it came to chanting Torah, Rabbi Ezekiel Nissim Musleah was in a class by himself. As a child of ten, Musleah lost his mother. Two years later, partly as a way to console himself, Musleah ...
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, is retiring at a challenging time for the gay rights movement. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum at her final service as ...
ELKINS PARK — When Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) welcomes its new rabbi on July 1, it will also be welcoming in a 20-time marathon runner who is committed to fostering equity, inclusion, ...
Jewish mystical texts say God “looked into the Torah and created the world” and studying the Torah is a way of studying God’s mind. So why is it that Jewish study centers are filled almost exclusively ...