Jewish Texts

Ki Tisa highlights how Shabbat is a gift to the Jewish people and the world.

He came to curse, and ended up reciting a blessing so beautiful it is prominent in our liturgy.

The midrash rounds out the biblical figures Abraham and Sarah

The Torah portion deals with intermarriage, a phenomenon with contemporary resonance.

A word and its opposite may be one and the same.

The fate of the individual is often determined by the behavior of the community as a whole.

Biblical laws of business ethics.

Moses exemplifies a lesson in business ethics.

A Midrash on the 10 plagues reminds us to recognize any good that has been done for us.

They struggled to reconcile the words of earlier prophets.

The book of Esther is not a historical document in the usual sense--but that doesn't undermine its importance as a religious book in the Jewish canon.

Twelve "minor prophets" form one "book" concluding the Prophets, the middle section of the Hebrew Bible.