There are seven weeks between Tisha B’Av, the Fast Day of the Ninth of Av, when both Jewish Temples were destroyed and other calamities occurred to the Jewish people, and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New ...

This week’s Torah portion (Parashat Eikev – Deut. 7:12ff.) opens with the words: “And it shall be, because you will listen to these judgments and keep and perform them, that the LORD your God will ...

This week's Torah reading, Parashat Eikev, continues with the second of Moses' three farewell discourses to his beloved nation, in which he recounts the salient events of the last forty years of ...

Who has an easier time, a singer or a Rabbi? I’ve noticed that when singers perform, the audience wants to hear the melodies and the songs that they’re familiar with. In fact, if a renowned singer ...

In Va’etchanan, we declared the Shema: “Hear, O Israel…” A moment of thunder and tenderness, of inheritance wrapped in presence. In Eikev, we continue it, not in recitation, but in enactment. Here, in ...