When we read the end of Bereshit followed by the beginning of Noach, we notice that God gets upset twice, and twice makes a decree to destroy humanity, with the exception of Noach and his family. The ...

Rashi famously begins his commentary to Sefer Bereshit with the words of a midrash: Rabbi Yitzchak said, “The Torah should have begun with Kiddush Ha-Chodesh (Sanctification of the New Month), which ...

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The images of young men starved and tortured in propaganda videos released by their evil Hamas captors seared the conscience of our people. As the cycle of Torah readings begins anew with Parshat ...

We start again this Shabbat at the beginning with Bereshit. The universe is created out of nothingness by God. “The earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind ...

This week we read that sometimes even G-d begs forgiveness. The story of Genesis tells us that when G-d first created the luminaries, He made the sun and the moon equal in stature—two equal rulers.

Man’s knowledge is vast, but God’s knowledge is infinite, making Torah infinitely deep. The first word of the Torah makes this point when understood through the prism of PARDES, a Hebrew word that ...

Darwin’s theories radically impacted human thought and severely challenged religious dogma. Here are five enduring Darwinian challenges to our Jewish value system. Scientific revolutions often lead to ...