Bereishis opens the doorway of beginnings. Shemos opens the doorway of becoming. Vayikra opens the doorway of the inner world and the discipline of holiness held close. Each book shifts the frame of ...

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The first point of inquiry is the timing of the Levites’ induction. We often assume that the structure of the Jewish people was set in stone at *Har Sinai* (Mount Sinai). However, the Ramban draws our ...

The story ranks as one of the strangest in Tanach, if not the most strange. And it is found in this week’s haftarah. A prophet of Hashem is commanded to marry a prostitute. You read those words ...