By Eric Lenefsky   Parshas Re’eh, and the following few parshiyos, represent a shift in Moshe Rabbeinu’s farewell address, from a speech...

By Yoni Laub A few months ago, I bumped into a friend who was in his first year of law school and his first year out of Yeshiva at...

Given my reputation, and the concomitant expectation to live up to it, I initially thought to write about Ibn ʿAzra’s ‘Secret of the...

By Elie Shapiro In the beginning of the Parsha, Hashem commands Moshe to wage war against Midyan,   וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה...

By Aryeh Bienstock In this week’s parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu requests that Hashem appoint his successor and he is instructed to appoint...

By Judah Graber At the end of Parshas Balak, the Torah recounts the story of how Bnei Yisrael became attached to Baal Peor. The pasuk...

By Zachary Fish Based on this shiur by Shammai Siskind Parshas Chukas opens with one of the Torah's most perplexing laws: the Parah...

By Zachary Fish This week, we find ourselves amidst a fierce political battle, questioning whether the nation's leader is truly fit to...

By Eric Lenefsky After the horrific, tragic event that is חטא המרגלים and its impact on כלל ישראל in that generation, and frankly all...

By Judah Graber Rav Taragin calls this parsha the “pizza pie” parsha because it contains a variety of seemingly random pieces and stories...

By Mordy Blau One question that arises in this week’s Parsha is: why is it so long? Why does the Torah feel the need to detail every...

By Zachary Fish What does the story of Rut have to do with Shavuot? On the holiday that commemorates one of the most monumental events in...

By Zach Israeli A few weeks back, my Iranian classmate Hossein and I were schmoozing about the current state of affairs in Iran. He...

By Aryeh Bienstock This week’s parsha contains the famous Brachos and Klalos; the blessings that Hashem promises to bestow on Bnei...

By Tuvia Goldstein Similar to פרשת משפטים, our פרשה reads like a list of מצוות. The פרשה moves quickly from topic to topic, teaching...

By Josh Appel Many of us are familiar with the concept of קידוש ה׳ – the sanctifying of God’s name – and know that it appears in this...

Mordy Blau As we observe college campuses today, we witness camp-ins and building takeovers from Columbia to Harvard to UCLA to...

By Meir Jacobs Among the many blood-related מצוות in פרק י”ז is that of כיסוי הדם, covering the blood of a slaughtered חיה or עוף. There...

By Ian Schwartz As we enter Shabbat Hagadol and prepare ourselves for the light of Pesach, it feels as though we have just experienced...

By Yoni Laub If a Kohen finds that someone has tzaraas on their body, the Kohen declares him Tamei. So intuitively, if a person would...