Our guest this week is Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton of the Or Haneshama congregation in Ottowa, Canada. Rabbi Bolton was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1996. After serving as ...

The pairing of Behar-Bechukotai raises the question: were they originally defined as two parashot later joined when needed, ...

In this week’s parsha, following a brief overview of the blessings we will merit if we observe the mitzvot, the Torah describes what God has in store for the Jewish people should they diverge from the ...

Parshat Bechukotai opens with a powerful promise: “If you walk in My statutes… I will give your rains in their season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees shall yield their fruit.” This ...

Unfortunately, we tend to give less attention to those laws of the Torah about things we no longer practice. Among them are the laws about making a donation equivalent to a person’s worth (arakhim), ...

This week’s Torah portion, Bechukotai, primarily focuses on the covenant between the people of Israel and God. This covenant can be summarized in a simple sentence: “If you do good, good things will ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Aaron Rubinger, Senior Rabbi of the Ohev Shalom congregation in Orlando, Florida. Rabbi Rubinger is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Brandeis University. He has a Master’s ...

This week's haftorah is a profound statement about resilience, about the ability to endure and even thrive amid adversity ...

“And let your brother live with you” (Leviticus 25:36). Many laws and halachic principles are embedded in this phrase, and one of them is: “And let your brother live – with you.” You are not obligated ...

In a famous photo, President John F. Kennedy is seen facing the windows of the Oval Office with his back to the camera. Slightly bent over, with his hands spread out on a credenza, he appears in deep ...

The Torah proclaims that a house in a walled city may be sold in perpetuity, but the owner has the right of repurchase during the first year of the sale (Leviticus 25:29, 30). Interestingly, the word ...