Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

It is well known in the Jewish tradition that Yom Kippur is the Day when we are judged by G-d for our actions the previous year and it is decreed what type of year we will have in the upcoming year.

The Akeidah opens with the words “And it came to pass, after these events, that God tested Abraham” (Genesis 22:1). The biblical Hebrew word for test is nisah. But for whom ...

Many Jews have difficulty with faith. I am no different. I was relieved a decade ago to read in the Encyclopedia Judaica — in a passage authored by the early 20th-century Reform scholar Kaufmann ...

The Talmud (B. Berachot 21a) seeks a biblical source for the benediction recited before studying Torah and suggests the biblical verse that opens the Ha'azinu poem rendered by Moses just before his ...