For artists who take on the challenge of depicting scenes from the Torah – particularly Moses and the giving of the Ten ...

The Talmud and our sages teach that Hashem intentionally chose Har Sinai because its name hints at a deep truth: from the ...

The Torah is described as the Tree of Life, and there is a legend that Mount Sinai once was a “green mountain” covered with ...

Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed to Moses in the ...

Shavuot, by all reason, should be the pinnacle of Jewish holidays. After all, this was the cataclysmic “day the Earth stood ...

Another fundamental question that has long been discussed regarding this foundational event of our tradition is: who received ...

They did not preserve Sinai mainly as a story about a prophet on a summit. They preserved it as the moment a people ...

One of the fundamental principles of Jewish faith is that the Torah is eternal and will never be replaced.

Drawn from the opening chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, the Haftorah describes one of the most extraordinary prophetic visions ...

The debate over Torah from Sinai may depend less on proof than on the condition of the soul.

The Shavuot festival memorialises the giving of the law to the Jewish people – and is intimately bound to dietary practices.