Rabbi Pinto further emphasized that a person develops precisely through moments of difficulty. When one faces challenges, they uncover inner strengths they were previously unaware of. If a person’s ...

Chapter Two of the biblical Book of Exodus compresses into a mere five paragraphs the extraordinary story of Moses the Israelite boy born into a slave family who becomes the prince of Egypt and then a ...

Perhaps Yitro was not just looking for a God to believe in but a nation to be part of. In the splitting of the sea and the war of Amalek, Jethro found a special destiny embedded in Jewish peoplehood, ...

The Ten Commandments recall the Exodus. You are part of an extended family, the Israelites. It began with Abraham, from ...

Whether as a sign of defiance toward the government or out of despair at not seeing the return of those still held in the ...

Were it not for [King] David, who was engaged in Torah learning, Yoav would not have been successful in battle, and were it not for Yoav’s skills as a warrior, [King] David would not have been able ...

A view of the settlement of Maale Adumim and the E1 area of Jerusalem, 2 November 2011. Mahmoud illean / Demotix/Demotix / Press Association Images.