The Torah’s sympathetic attitude toward ecology surfaces in a law legislating conduct during war. “When you besiege a city for many days to wage war against it, to seize it, do not destroy its trees ...

Why would the prophet compare oppression to drunkedness? Isaiah is not referencing actual addiction, but rather producing a subtle analysis of oppression. Scholars have long grappled with the ...

I can remember one of the first spiritual-psychological Chasidic texts that I studied, a text that opened the gates to a lifetime of study. When I was about 28 years old – 1982 – one of my teachers ...

Here in “Shoftim” we are told about what should be the procedure after Moses has died and, once again, it is NOT the judges who have the final say in legal decisions. The judges are told to go to the ...