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Ari SacherThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
In an earlier essay[1], we noted that Pesach and Sukkot commemorate the same event, the exodus from Egypt, but from fundamentally different...
If you think that the first verse in the Book of Bemidbar sounds eerily familiar, you have a good memory. The Book of Bemidbar begins with a preface...
In the Portion of Behar, the Torah presents what appears to be a straightforward legal framework governing economic collapse and recovery: A man loses...
Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary‑General of Hezbollah from 1992 until his death in 2024, once famously said, “We have discovered how to hit the Jews...
The Torah [Vayikra 12:3] commands that a male child be circumcised on “the eighth day”. Why not any earlier? Perhaps this is a biological...
The opening chapters of the Book of Vayikra map out the world of sacrifices offered on the altar. Sacrifices are not one-dimensional. Some sacrifices...
The Portion of Vayikra begins with a simple but loaded verb [Vayikra 1:1]: “[G-d] called (Vayikra).” Before law, before procedure, before...
The story of the construction of the Tabernacle (Mishkan) is one of the most remarkable moments in the Torah. A nation that only recently left slavery...
I must have read the Book of Esther (Megillah) hundreds of times. So it comes as a surprise that this year I discovered something that I had never...
The Tabernacle (Mishkan) accompanied the Jewish people from shortly after the Exodus until it was replaced by the Holy Temple (Beit HaMikdash) built...
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