Moses
Parashat Eikev: With respect for the past
Moses shattered the Tablets, yet their fragments were preserved beside the new ones. Their message endures, what appears broken can still carry holiness, meaning, and strength.
Parashat Eikev: The things we step on
Parashat Va'ethanan: Behind the curtain
Parashat Devarim: Always relevant
How could the Jews who left Egypt have achieved financial freedom?
Investing a few thousand dollars every year for 10-15 years could potentially leave you with a large nest egg. Before you know it, you could be financially independent.
Passover Seder: Moses, matzah and modesty - opinion
Moses’s name is mentioned no less than 628 times in the Five Books of Moses, yet here, in the one place where he should shine the most, he is missing.
What do Pharaoh, Moses teach Israel about its leadership crisis?
MIDDLE ISRAEL: There was a time when leaders thought of things larger than themselves.
What we can learn from the story of those who contributed eagerly, told to stop - opinion
In order to be of help to others, one must be on a certain moral and intellectual level, the writer explains.
Will Israel’s pro-judiciary revolt be violent?
MIDDLE ISRAEL: Unlike this government's many tin soldiers and draft dodgers, the dissidents who called for an armed struggle are real war heroes.
Rabbi Pinto: “The Book of Deuteronomy is the greatest book of ethics”
In light of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto’s renewed calls, many of his students joined the initiative to read the Book of Deuteronomy.
Parashat Beshalah: Searching for passion
Without our own passion and sacrifice, we have little to demand from the future. Don’t fear hardships or sacrifice – they will lead us to nobility and passion.
Parashat Va’eira: Fact-checking
The small act of improving Moses’s speaking abilities would have gone a long way toward improving his ambitious agenda, yet God preserved Moses’s speech impediment.
The Jewish leaders leading the Jewish people - then and now - opinion
Living in modern Israel is like living in a real-time ongoing Talmudic dispute.
Rosh Hashanah: ‘For my sake the world was created’
Each individual has the power and potential to change the world. Indeed, throughout Jewish history there were many individuals who literally changed the course of Jewish history.