Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin writes that the names of the parshiot speak to the heart of the parsha’s message just as names do. Therefore, there is significance in the names of parshiot and in names ...

Something about the Jew elicits the worst fears in humanity and the approach of a nation wearied by a 40-year desert journey is extraordinarily alarming to the powerful monarch Balak. Parshat Balak ...

The Jews are coming and the neighbours are not pleased. After routing Sihon, King of the Amorites, and Og, King of Bashan, the next stop on the route to their homeland is the Land of Moab. Balak, the ...

What does God require of us? He demands – and this is a firm demand, not a polite request – that we be good: to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God. This week’s Torah portion ...

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Jewish history began on the day that “Hashem said to Abram, Get yourself out from your country and from your homeland and from your father’s house, to the Land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1).

There is a clear parallelism between Balak and events in the Book of Exodus. In both narratives, kings (Pharaoh of Egypt and Balak of Moab), alarmed about the success of the Jewish people, conspire to ...

Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them!“ On June 20, after an Iranian missile landed on a building in Haifa, Yona Yahav, the mayor ...

There is a clear parallel between Balak and events in the Book of Exodus. In both narratives, kings (Pharaoh of Egypt and Balak of Moab), alarmed about the success of the Jewish People, conspire to ...