Tanakh

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

Shlomo Zuckier on the mechanics of a midrashic motif.

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that we can best understand the Haggadah against the backdrop of Sefer Devarim.

In her winning Ateret Zvi essay, Leah Sarna explores two simultaneously true stories about pregnancy: it is at once a beautiful, incredible miracle, and also a demanding journey, both physically and mentally, that often feels more like a catastrophe. Studying the Torah's accounts of pregnancy in Tazria and Rivkah's life, Sarna offers a moving analysis of what it means to hear, tell, and live these stories.

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

In Part II of his series on trop, William Gewirtz explains the principle of recursion and how it helps us interpret texts.

With Yom Kippur in view, Shlomo Zuckier presents a close reading of Isaiah 58.

In this thought-provoking piece, Aharon Frazer traces the approach to power and privilege in the Torah from Genesis through Deuteronomy, and offers a framework for the ethical use of power in our own times.

In a chapter adapted from his new book, Be, Become, Bless: Jewish Spirituality between East and West, Yaakov Nagen suggests based on the Zohar that the world endures when we see Godliness in another person's face.

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.