Speaking ill of someone once most likely leads to a second time. And hearing gossip, just like the flu, is contagious.

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible in existence, the Sassoon Codex, will be on permanent display at ANU, the Museum of ...

Sukkot celebrates the harvest in Israel. It is tradition to take four kinds of vegetation, and wave them together, ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books that make up the anthology ...

The Book of Leviticus (Sefer Vayikra), whose very name (“God called to Moses”) underscoring the Torah’s call to be in ...

Shemini tells the tragic story of how the great inauguration of the Tabernacle, a day about which the Sages said that God ...

The Hebrew Israelite and Black Hebrew Israelite movements are as diverse as they are controversial, but one thing that ...

Unfortunately, there are many instances of well-meaning, intelligent people misinterpreting the Bible. Sometimes, they did it intentionally to teach a lesson, and sometimes, they got it wrong. I will ...

There were many biblical words that translators and commentators mistranslated. Tzaraat was one of the many. It is mentioned in the 13th chapter of the fourth biblical portion of Leviticus, Tazri’a 12 ...