Bamidbar

Ezra Zuckerman Sivan comments on the story of Zelophehad and his daughters.

For Eve Grubin, Bilam's hidden messages is a lesson for the Torah and for life.

A poem on parshat Korach by Zohar Atkins

The Talmud speaks of a mysterious passage on Bilam authored by Moses. What is it?

Steven Weiner writes on the significance of tears on Tishah Be-Av and how they relate to the thanks of birkat ha-mazon.

For Parshat Naso, Lehrhaus editor Yosef Lindell compares three twentieth-century rereadings of the Sotah ritual that make the passage more palatable to modern audiences.

In this second-place prize-winning essay for Hadar’s annual Ateret Zvi contest, Nehemia Polen approaches a vexing episode in the Torah through new lens: what if Moses and Aaron were denied entry to the Land of Israel not because of what they did when obtaining water from the rock but because of where they escaped to right before?

Tzvi Sinensky explores the Talmudic version of the Roman myth of Narcissus