Torah Studio Commentary

On the connection between Song of Songs and Pesach By Rebecca Chess Spring is here! And thus Passover is fast approaching. We prepare our...

This week’s parshah, M’tzora, is one of the most weird and unrelatable in the entire Torah. It deals primarily with three subjects:...

Rebecca offers us suggestions and tools to help us dive into challenging texts, whether thats in Leviticus or beyond.

It’s radical to read Torah to its roots. When the Kabbalists imagined the Tree of Life, they placed its roots in the world of...

Contributing writer Max Antman relates Parasha Tetzaveh to Black History Month considering legacy as motivation for progress.

Rebecca reflects on their feelings and where they are finding comfort after the events at Beth Israel in Colleyville Texas.

This week is transgender awareness week, it is the week leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day that our community...

Many people know of the story where our Patriarch Jacob gets the name Israel, but allow me to share it again here. In Genesis Chapter 32,...

"Now, seeing that Leah was disfavored, HaShem opened her womb, while Rachel was childless." (Genesis 29:31) Leah was given to Jacob...

We descend from her. We would be nothing without her. To this day we remember her, though probably not as often as we should. She is the...