Tanakh

Yisroel Ben-Porat grapples with whether the case of the pregnant Sotah has implications for the debates surrounding abortion.

Susan Jablow on reading Tanakh through the eyes of a ba'alat teshuva

David Fried argues that the question of Moses seeing the face of God reveals the tragic choice Moses made in choosing between his own spirituality and that of his people.

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

Shlomo Zuckier asks what we can learn from Shaul's mistakes in this week's Haftara.

Yakov Nagen examines the opening chapters of Genesis to explore what God wanted from people for matan Torah.

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

Laurance Wieder's After Adam was named the Book of the Year in 2019 by First Thing's John Wilson, but has been largely overlooked in the Jewish community. The Jewish Review of Book's Michal Leibowitz seeks to remedy this in her review of Wieder's lyrical retelling of the Bible.

Shlomo Zuckier wonders why the earth opened its mouth for both Korah and Kayin.

Yaakov Jaffe traces the origins and evolution of the custom to shake the lulav in different directions.