The emotional struggles of our ancestors can help guide us today.

As God promises to accompany Jacob into exile, we learn that sometimes the challenge of being fully present and sharing in someone's pain is greater than relieving their suffering.

A text's physical description of God might actually have been intended to emphasize God's indescribability.

Ami wrote this right before he left for college this fall. He bravely chronicled coming out at his Orthodox high school ...

Without her, we wouldn't have the fifth book of the Torah.

The prayer does not praise (or even name) God. Here’s why.

Holiness and secrecy are intricately enmeshed in the Torah.

Several commentators discuss the relationship of the elders to the priests, the people, Moses and God.

Ordained in 1972 by the Reform movement, she paved the way to the rabbinate for many women.

Together, these three tractates on civil law were once a single work, called Tractate Nezikin.