Humash

David Fried offers a novel reading of the Akeidah.

Yoni Nouriel examines an episode in the Talmud where Shimon Ha-Tzadik describes his encounter with an impure Nazir.

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that we can best understand the Haggadah against the backdrop of Sefer Devarim.

There’s a miniature kaf at the beginning of the parashah. As Gabriel Slamovits explains, what the diminished letter says about how Abraham mourned for Sarah fits well with a prominent teaching of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, zt”l.

Meshulam Gotlieb analyzes a midrash on Jacob's ladder dream to understand Jacob's lifelong fear, how he became so fearful and how it affected his life.

Ezra Sivan probes the Sabbath and the Torah's call to love God.

Miriam Gedwiser explains how the Rabbis of the Talmud put the law of yefat to'ar in conversation with the David narrative, and what this teaches us about how we should approach passages of this nature.

Was the teiva an attempt to save Moshe's life? David Fried challenges our assumptions about the purpose of the wicker basket in the river.

Ezra Sivan asks what light the narratives of Shabbat and the scouts shed on some critical social questions.

Gavriel Lakser explains how the change from Zakhor to Shamor is one of the earliest examples of Oral Torah.