Tanakh

For Eve Grubin, Bilam's hidden messages is a lesson for the Torah and for life.

In his letter to the editor, Gershon Klapper draws upon three medieval sources that undermine Ben Greenfield's recent reading of the Zohar on the three attributes of the Avot.

Dan Ornstein examines the rabbinic interpretation of the phrase "ba-asher hu sham," and applies it to the current conflict in Israel.

For Parshat Naso, Lehrhaus editor Yosef Lindell compares three twentieth-century rereadings of the Sotah ritual that make the passage more palatable to modern audiences.

Tzvi Sinensky explores the Talmudic version of the Roman myth of Narcissus

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that the Megillah itself confronts the question of Purim's legitimacy.