Numbers 7:8-12:16 - A Just War by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Amongst the many topics in this week’s Torah reading is the seemingly incidental one...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Shavuot more than any other festival illustrates the ongoing way in which a Biblical festival and indeed many...

Numbers 1-4:20 - Who Counts? by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The fourth book of the Torah, Bamidbar, literally means “desert.” It covers the main...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen As South Africa goes to the polls to re-elect a corrupt, evil, disaster of a regime, one feels so sorry for those...

Leviticus26:3 -27:34 - What am I worth? by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen As we reach the end of the book of Leviticus, we've run through a series of...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Rebbi Akiva, born in 50 CE, was one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmud. He was also one of the most...

Leviticus Chapter 25:1-26:2 - Why Homeland Matters by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen “God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and told him to tell the...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The man we know as Josephus (the Romans called him Flavius Josephus ), was an aristocratic Judean, born in...

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Book of Leviticus * is concerned with difference. Different people, and different roles. Different standards of...