Tanakh

Daniel Lifshitz explains the connection between Abraham, Gideon, and David through the lens of this week's Parshah and Haftarah.

The significant linkages between the Garden of Eden narrative and the commandment concerning cutting down trees in time of war suggest a profound message about how we should live in an imperfect world.

Lehrhaus Editor Shlomo Zuckier examines two divergent understandings of Jewish law.

Surprisingly, Bible scholars have not addressed the remarkable intertextual conversation between Jacob's blessings in Genesis 49 and Deborah's song in Judges 5. Michael Bernstein offers his original etymological analysis of the two poetic texts.

The stories of Hagar and Ishmael's banishment and subsequent rescue by the angel and that of a cast-out baby Moses on the Nile rescued by Pharaoh's daughter are seemingly dissimilar, but this close reading by David Curwin argues that their strong parallels have a lesson to teach about the importance of being active and not succumbing to passivity.

Aryeh Klapper recreating a patriarchal voice.

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.

Jason Herman examines whether or not rabbis should talk politics in shul.

Tzvi Sinensky contends that the rabbinic and feminist readings of Vashti are not diametrically opposed.

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