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Specifically, we're looking at Leviticus 23:11, which instructs us about waving the omer "before the Lord, for acceptance on your behalf; on the day after the sabbath the priest sh...
We find a surprisingly intimate answer tucked away in Vayikra Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic homilies on the Book of Leviticus. Rabbi Yoshiya starts us off with a verse from Psal...
The arba minim — the "four species" used during the Jewish festival of Sukkot — carry a meaning far deeper than ritual. These four species – the etrog, the date palm branch (lulav)...
We know the science, the orbits, the rotations... But what about the story behind it all? What's the cosmic drama unfolding behind the scenes of our everyday sunrise and sunset? We...
The ancient sages pondered these very feelings, especially when thinking about the fate of the Jewish people. Midrash Tehillim, a collection of interpretations on the Book of Psalm...
The ancient rabbis felt that too. And they found echoes of that feeling in the Psalms, in the very words of King David. Take Psalm 9, for instance. It contains the plea: "Chananeni...
This feeling, this sense of divine distance, is at the heart of Midrash Tehillim 10, a powerful exploration of our relationship with the Divine. The midrash, a form of Jewish bibli...
King David, a man familiar with enemies both within and without, knew exactly where to run: to God. Psalm 11:1 starts, "To the chief musician, a psalm of David: In the Lord I have ...
That’s the kind of feeling we’re exploring today, a feeling that resonates deeply within Jewish tradition, particularly concerning the Temple in Jerusalem and the ever-present Shek...
