The Book of Leviticus (Sefer Vayikra), whose very name (“God called to Moses”) underscoring the Torah’s call to be in ...

Calling out in prayer and beseeching God to answer our supplications involves an element of entitlement, perhaps even ...

Circumcision: Demonic Practice or Theological Covenant. Yigal Bin-Nun . The practice of foreskin removal likely originated in ...

Aunt Margaret’s frugality was legendary. After she passed away, her nieces began the nostalgically bittersweet task of ...

ELOHIM: Translated as God (a plural noun, for more than one, almost always used with singular verbs, the dual form Eloah is used in Job); Elohim is the royal I; and is very often used in the Quran. It ...

ELOHIM: Translated as God (a plural noun, for more than one, almost always used with singular verbs, the dual form Eloah is used in Job); Elohim is the royal I; and is very often used in the Quran. It ...

The rush toward artificial general intelligence reveals our age-old impulse to create tangible “gods” with power over ...

Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Rav of Brisk, wonders why this verse appears in Parshat Beshalach, when we speak about the ...

This is most unexpected. We’re accustomed to God referring to the departure from Egypt as YETZIAT MITZRAYIM, the departure (okay, Exodus) from Egypt. Why the change to ‘raises you up’?