Humash

As we begin to read Sefer Shemot, Yosef Lindell explores Koren Publishers' new series, The Tanakh of the Land of Israel, the first volume to use Rabbi Sacks’ Humash translation.

William Gewirtz explores the value of cantillation.

Zach Truboff draws on personal experience in considering the place of Yizkor on Yom Tov.

A call for a new Modern Orthodox Humash, and a history of the current ones, by Yosef Lindell.

R. Yitzchak Blau analyzes the 2018 book, Was Yosef on the Spectrum?

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

Lehrhaus Founding and Consulting Editor Elli Fischer on why R. Mendel of Rimanov is said to have spoken about the man every Shabbat for 22 consecutive years, and why reciting parshat ha-man the Tuesday before Parshat Beshalah might not be a segulah for parnasa, but R. Mendel's exhortation to be content with our lot.

Dan Jutan locates a fascinating meta-narrative within Rashi's commentary.

At the height of the cholera epidemic in 1831, Hatam Sofer delivered a timely sermon on a perplexing midrash to Parshat Ki Tavo. The take-home, suggests Elli Fischer, is all-too familiar in the COVID era.

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.