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Our parsha begins to tell the story of the various utensils used in the Mishkan. It also begins to tell us about their placement: “Place the table outside the curtain, and...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

Part One: And I shall dwell within you Shemot 25:8 Make for me a sanctuary and I will dwell within them There is a problem with this pasuk (verse). Should it...

The Torah specifically commands us to help our fellow man with free loans: “If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, don’t be like a creditor to...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

Parshat Mishpatim 23:20 “Behold, I am sending an angel to protect you on the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared for you.” After we have completed...

Two of the best-known candle-lighting customs are the Chanukah lights and the candle by which we search for chametz on Pesach eve. On the face of it these two mitzvot could...

Each day in the Temple the Levi’im used to sing a particular chapter of Tehillim at the time of the wine libation in the morning and late afternoon. These songs are...

Part One: Buttons The Torah relates how Moshe Rabbeinu’s detailed report of what transpired to the Jewish people in the previous year impacted heavily upon Yitro. Rashi explains that Yitro was...

The Ten Commandments, which were chosen by Hashem to be the first and the most prominently given of the 613 commandments of the Torah, embody the most basic principles of religious...