Torah Commentary

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Finding Meaning in Ancient Rituals

How the sacrificial system lives on.

Avoiding Deification in Creating the Mishkan

If the Golden Calf was an abomination, why is the Tabernacle okay?

Establishing a System

Parashat Terumah lays out a list of regulations for spiritual development.

Challah for Parashat Terumah

Lehem Panim--Show Bread.

Making Free Will Offerings

Along with tzedakah, terumah is a vital way of sustaining our Jewish communities.

The Ban on ‘Tereifah’

Parashat Mishpatim includes a very curious law about eating meat.

What Moses Learned from His Father-In-Law

The Midianite has concerns about the well-being of the Israelites and their leader Moses.

Challah for Parashat Yitro

Mount Sinai in smoke.

The Bones of the Ephraimites

A Midrash explains that the Israelites took an indirect route out of Egypt to avoid seeing the dead bodies of their brothers.

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