Tanakh

Jack Bieler continues the conversation about the need for and feasibility of a Modern Orthodox humash.

Eliezer Finkelman discusses the meaning of perfect repentance.

Thanks in part to several new publications, portions of the Orthodox world have been engaging with modern biblical scholarship in a more significant way than ever before. Gil Perl provides a four-step framework for how Jewish days schools might profitably teach many aspects of biblical criticism that do not conflict with our mesorah.

Building on ideas from Jacques Lacan and Rabbeinu Bahya ibn Pakuda, Zach Truboff offers an innovative psychological reading of the Cain and Abel story.

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.

Bezalel Naor explains what is philosophical about the erstwhile halakhic observances of the Shavuot holiday.

Yaakov Jaffe explores four themes of Psalm 24 as recited on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.

David Schwartz explores thematic similarities between the Hanukkah miracle and Pharaoh’s dreams.

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

Sarah Rindner asks what the Book of Leviticus, Leonard Cohen and the Liberty Bell all have in common.