Deuteronomy

Parshat Ekev and Avinu Malkeinu.

Kashrut reminds us again and again that Jewish spirituality is inseparable from the physical.

Why does Moses change his story as he retells it at the end of his life?

It is time to do no less than to dress the Torah in the language of women.

We cannot condone the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

Is there ever justice in the death penalty?

Our existential relationship to our ancestors and how we learn empathy.

Learn more about the weekly Torah portion.

Both are about righting the wrongs that are all too pervasive in our world.

In the Second Temple period, a system of Jewish courts emerged.