Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto concludes: “Through complete devotion to the Holy Torah and the attribute of holiness, a person can achieve lofty insights and fulfill the divine potential hidden within his soul ...

Abraham Lincoln said it best when he spoke of “a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

In a new book, “Holiness and Society,” the Israeli scholar Ronen Shoval seeks to understand the philosophical implications of the phrase and its contemporary resonance.

In current US politics, a“biblical” view of the Middle East informs foreign policy – perhaps more than it has for decades.

God establishes a covenant with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and finally Jesus. In these succeeding covenants we see God expanding his covenant family until there is a one, holy, catholic ...

God’s mercy was evoked due to this mother’s cry.  This Divine attribute of mercy can now be seen as taking its place in the ...

First, in Exodus 25:18-21, God commands Moses to make two statues of angels (cherubim) for the top of the Ark of the Covenant. Later in Numbers 21:8-9, God commands Moses to make a bronze serpent ...

The world demands simple answers. Inside Israel, we do the same - dividing into sides, refusing to hold complexity.

Before Moses, the burning bush is aflame but not ... Fire also represents divine purification, as in God’s covenant with Abraham, where a “smoking firepot with a blazing torch” passes ...