Late in the 15th century, the brilliant Sephardic Bible commentator Don Isaac Abarbanel was sitting in his study in Monopoli, Italy, writing a detailed commentary on the Book of Isaiah. Born in ...

They say there are no more prophets. The Rabbis agreed that the last biblical prophets were Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. Many people would like to obtain prophecy nowadays, but we see from ...

Shavuot, unlike many Jewish holidays, does not take place on the full moon. This celebration, when we study all night to commemorate receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, precedes the night of the ...

This week in Parshat Toldot we enter into a cycle of sibling rivalry beginning with Jacob and Esau, a motif that repeats itself through the rest of the Book of Genesis. From the beginning of the ...

The literature of Jewish prophecy and revelation has ample analogues to psychedelic experiences, writes a rabbi and author. The first question many Jewish users of psychedelics ask is whether there ...

Last week I had the pleasure of driving from Jerusalem to Beit Shemesh with Rabbi David Samson, my co-editor on our new book, “Torat Eretz Yisrael Anthology,” a 700 page compilation of essays written ...