The Torah spends a long time describing a structure that was temporary and objects that are long gone. If the objective had been to dwell within it, the entire enterprise would have been ephemeral and ...

The Decalogue, wrongly called the Ten Commandments, appears in Exodus and Deuteronomy. In Exodus, the law is to “remember” the Sabbath Day and treat it as something holy. In Deuteronomy, the law is to ...

Terumah relates G-d’s directions to Moses for building the portable sanctuary, the mishkan. The Children of Israel were on ...

The uppermost covering of the Mishkan, the mobile Tabernacle of the desert, was made from the colorful skins of the Tachash.

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

And you shall make the courtyard of the Mishkan on the southern side [there shall be] hangings for the courtyard of twisted fine linen, one hundred cubits long on one side. ~ Exodus 27:9 The Ikea ...

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe. -Mark Twain ...

Do we need a sanctuary to know, to feel, Hashem’s presence and that He dwells in our midst?  Or like the little girl flying her kite, do we “feel the tug” wherever we are? Rabbi Menachem Mendel of ...

Rav Yehoshua M’Kutna, one of the Gedolei Yisrael in the 19th Century, offers an answer in his ישועות מלכו. It says in Masechet Chagigah (טו) when talking about Tzadikim and Reshaim, that the Tzadik ...

It is parashat Terumah time, Rosh Chodesh Adar is this Shabbat, which is also Shabbat parashat Shekalim (the Half Shekel offering). In parashat Terumah, beginning in Exodus, chapter 25 ...