Shavuot

How do Moses Mendelssohn and Revelation jibe? Judah Kerbel offers some perspective.

Benjamin Marcus was commissioned to create illustrations for an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Ruth. In this one-of-a-kind article, he shares his challenges, his discoveries, and his art.

In this whimsical story, David Zvi Kalman takes an information theory perspective in tackling what it might have been like for Moses to receive the Law.

Can individual autonomy be reconciled with the practice of Halakhah? It can and must, insisted Rav Nachum Rabinovich zz"l. In honor of Rav Rabinovich's sheloshim this past Thursday, David Silverstein explains.

One of the central concerns of the work of Rav Shagar is translation, in both its literal and figurative versions. Michael Blank explores Rav Shagar's use and conception of translation by examining the way he puts the writings of Rebbe Nachman, Jacque Lacan, and Emmanuel Levinas in conversation.

Ezra Sivan challenges our understanding of the fifth commandment and all of Sefer Devarim.

Michael Bernstein examines how the individual experience is ironically incorporated into holidays that are all about the community.

Abe Mezrich presents a poem on the Book of Ruth.

Jerome Marcus explores understandings of freedom within halakhah and how they relate to Pesah and Shavuot