Tanakh

In an original analysis of one of the most famous stories in the Torah, Maier Becker calls into question many long-held assumptions about this week's parasha and proposes a new reading based on the interpretations of traditional exegetes.

AJ Berkovitz explores the "life" of Jewish books, from authors to owners to outside the margins.

Malka Simkovich explores how Chazal approached our sacred texts in their midrashic allegories and how this issue continues to effect our approach to the torah today.

As we begin to read Sefer Shemot, Yosef Lindell explores Koren Publishers' new series, The Tanakh of the Land of Israel, the first volume to use Rabbi Sacks’ Humash translation.

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.

Yisroel Benporat juxtaposes the Akeidah with the Splitting of the Sea as similar tests of faith.

David Bashevkin articulates a religious educator’s perspective on why people become religious

Judy Taubes Sterman examines Judges Chapter 3.

Ezra Sivan explores the idea of confession, through the eyes of King David

Nachum Krasnopolsky explains Rashbam's interpretation of the splitting of the sea as an educational experience.