Developmentally, the text of the Torah is challenging for young children. The written text is not yet accessible to them because of their reading level, and even when read aloud, the language is often ...

Liberation begins with God giving the Israelites control of their own time and inviting them to commemorate and sanctify ...

As these difficult times demand great personal sacrifice from a select few, the rest of us should consider the meaning behind ...

When they do, they are practicing a good literacy skill – asking questions as you read (or hear) a text – but also are engaging in a very Jewish way of reading Torah. I am often asked how I answer the ...

Talia read the first four aliyot in Ashkenazi trope, from a standard Ashkenazi Torah scroll. For the fifth Aliyah, which ...

CHARLIE: When you're Jewish like me you try to live life by God's Commandments in the Torah the first Five Books of Moses. Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in ...

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

The ending of the Book of Exodus teaches that true freedom comes when we are neither the puppets of fellow humans or God but live a life where we improve ourselves, be all we can be, and help other ...

Now, we concentrate on glorifying the Torah. We conclude the yearlong reading of the Torah and then immediately start that reading again – creating a continuous “rolling of the scroll” from ...