Timeless Torah

The Book of Exodus concludes by describing the seven-day inauguration of the Tabernacle.  read more »

A Jew’s life parallels the second of the Five Books of the Torah: Exodus, whose opening and closing themes are counting and accounting. What relevancy does such a message have for you and me?  read more »

How did Jewish life become so cheap in the Holy Land? Answer: The lives of other Jewish boys and girls are not that precious to us. If they were - Torah assures us - they would never be removed from us so wantonly.  read more »

A sheik whose desert kingdom lacked water came to America and bought every available faucet. His plan didn’t work. Did Moses’ plan of the Sanctuary work out? Read on.  read more »

Usually, charity is calculated by currency sums - so many dollars’ worth. Donations to the Sanctuary however were calculated by weight - so many ounces of gold, so many of silver, etc. Why?  read more »

There is a great temptation to join in the sensationalism. But if one can make himself small enough to build something for G-d rather than himself, there is a real story in the making, worth detailing and even repeating.  read more »

A chiasmus is when the second half of the narrative is the mirror image of the first. It contains the basic principle of Biblical retributive justice: the rule of measure for measure, or “As you act, so shall others act to you.”  read more »

In Genesis, G-d created a home for man. In Exodus, man created a home for G-d. These two Books form a single story: the transfer of responsibility of Creation from heaven to earth, from G-d to the image-of-G-d.  read more »

I know it seems like only yesterday that we were dancing the Hakafos on Simchas Torah and beginning afresh the story of Genesis. Nevertheless, here we are already completing the second book of Exodus. The opening two Biblical volumes differ in that the first deals with the creation of a universe, while the second charts the creation of a nation.  read more »