When I discovered incense, in the wilds of the Venice Beach Boardwalk, as a young man in, probably, the late eighties, I didn ...

וְאַתָּ֞ה תְּצַוֶּ֣ה ׀ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְיִקְח֨וּ אֵלֶ֜יךָ שֶׁ֣מֶן זַ֥יִת זָ֛ךְ כָּתִ֖ית לַמָּא֑וֹר לְהַעֲלֹ֥ת נֵ ֖ר ...

God commands the Children of Israel to build a Sanctuary for Him, providing excruciating detail regarding every aspect of its ...

And you shall command the children of Israel, and they shall take to you pure olive oil, crushed for lighting, to kindle the lamps continually. I currently have boxes full of menorahs in my living ...

Last week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, stands out because Moses’s name is absent—the only time from his birth until the end of ...

In the back of the Choshen Mishpat there was a slip of parchment, known as the Urim Ve’tumim, containing G-d’s ineffable name. G-d was behind every decision the judges rendered. Even those decisio ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

Rabbi Pinto concluded with a powerful message: “One who controls his desires ultimately controls his destiny. The Yetzer Hara ...

Every morning, right at the start of our morning prayers, we say, “Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who ...

Consider, first of all, the passage we’ve just seen from near the beginning of the book of Exodus, when God tells Moses that ...