Sigmund Freud argued that sublimation is a defense mechanism, where we take emotionally unacceptable impulses and transform ...

In all the portions that deal with the building of the Mishkan and its vessels, and particularly in parashat “Vayakhel,” a ...

We can achieve great things when we work together, when we share, cooperate and collaborate. The scale and scope of the ...

Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...

A young woman is gingerly applying lipstick for her upcoming date, unaware of the horrible fate awaiting her. This may sound like the description of a new Netflix drama but it’s actually a scene in a ...

This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear. Mass fear makes people, and groups of people, think, say, and do irrational and destructive things. You ...

This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of two Torah portions concerned with the building of the Mishkan. In next week’s portion, Pekudei, we find the actual dedication of the Mishkan. I ...

Recounting for the first time the story of an entire people who, after long years of harsh and grueling bondage, emerge into freedom. Parashat Beshalach is a historic Torah portion, recounting for the ...

The story of every nation is the story of its leaders — and how they leave, writes the author of the forthcoming “The Torah of Leadership.” We often invoke the Hebrew phrase “l’dor v’dor,” from ...

Moses dons a mask in Parashat Ki Tisa. Two religious leaders propose a new ritual tied to that act of humility. But there’s another marker baked into Jewish tradition that hasn’t been discussed — and ...

Each year, when we read the sections of the Torah that describe the building of the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle, many ...