In Judaism, words are holy and sacred. The world was created by Divine speech, teaches us the opening book of the Pentateuch; the Hebrew alphabet constitutes the spiritual DNA of the cosmos, according ...

The prophecy of Jacob over Judah is a profound statement of expectation of the coming Messiah, in which every word – indeed ...

It is the last week of school in our Sinai Akiba Academy community. The night before my kindergartner’s graduation, we sat and created a word search. He asked me to write words into a puzzle of ...

The first word in our portion re’eh is one of the most powerful terms found in the Torah. In fact, God is described as a ro’eh on three different levels. The first time the word is found in the Torah, ...

In Sefer Vayikra, Torah means “the rules of” or “procedures of” a given sacrifice, zot Torat ha-olah. Later, Torat Moshe refers to Chumash, and then expands to the entire Tanach (Torah sh’bichtav), ...

Sara Wolkenfeld, the chief learning officer of the online database of Jewish text, reflects on a decade of free, open-source learning. With one search I found a helpful list of sources featuring ...

Rabbi Holtzblatt is a co-senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. The Torah begins with the world being created by words. “Let there be” is the recurring refrain. God names each ...