The name of the fourth of Moses’ five books of the Torah is called Bamidbar in Hebrew, meaning “in the desert.” As with the four other books, it is also the name of the first Torah portion of its ...

We are in the midst of the Book of Bamidbar (Numbers), the fourth of the five books of the Torah. This book has all kinds of names in it found only once in the Torah. Of course it has the big ticket ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...

Explore the Lesson of the Ram in this week's Torah portion. Understand the deep meanings behind Shabbat preparations and rest.

Rabbi Elchanan Shoff, the leader of Beis Knesses Los Angeles in Pico-Robertson and a local educator, is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to Torah learning. Whether he is giving a ...

A common critique of religion is that it exists only to blunt our fear of death through the deployment of comforting fairytales, replacing life’s great and unsettling unknowns with visions of an ...

American Jews prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays after the release of 20 Israeli hostages.