Shemot

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.

  Mark Glass I. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away. … Growing up, that’s how the gabba’im of my youth minyan would determine if...

Ayelet Wenger weaves together the personal, historical and exegetical in advance of reading Sefer Shemot.

Gidon Rothstein mines parashat Yitro for insight into best practices in synagogue governance.

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

As we prepare for Passover, enjoy these three poems by Bruce Black meditating on the past, present, and future of our Exodus.

Amitai Bin-Nun provides a fresh and intriguing perspective on the story of the Golden Calf by reading it in light of the Talmudic passage in Menahot detailing an encounter between Moses and R. Akiba on Mt. Sinai where God is tying crowns to the letters of the Torah scroll.

Ned Krasnopolsky explores the roles of meaning and obedience in matan Torah.

Tamar Weissman shows how the Druze minority in Israel remarkably resemble the biblical Kenites.

Ezra Sivan presents a new analysis of Shabbat and how it throws light on so much more in the Torah.