Tanakh

Zohar Atkins presents a new poem on the Akeidah.

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

This past Shabbat, Rivkah took center stage, making a dramatic decision that altered the course of her descendants’ histories. Sruli Fruchter examines the angst that preceded Rivkah’s fateful actions.

Joshua Stadlan carefully explores the “blemishes” that invalidate a kohein for service in the Mishkan to argue that they were not an original part of God’s plan.

Sam Glauber examines Abraham's place in his society.

Avraham’s challenge to God’s planned destruction of Sodom raises the fundamental ethical problem of collective punishment. The resolution of this challenge, Sruli Fruchter explains, enables Avraham to realize God’s highest ideals and to confront the conflict between compassion for oppressors and consideration for their victims.

Ezra Sivan challenges our understanding of the fifth commandment and all of Sefer Devarim.

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.

Yisroel Ben-Porat analyzes a Midrash offering non-misogynistic takes on the original sin.

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