Torah Study

A Post-Destruction model of Jewish Identity: Reading and studying Torah as if our life depended on it.

A Devar Torah on the occasion of the third anniversary of TheTorah.com

A Personal Reflection

The interest in Project TABS – TheTorah.com has been widespread across many communities, but the extensive interest in the Orthodox community may seem surprising for some, and likely would not have been the case a decade ago. In this essay, Prof. Chaim Waxman, a prominent scholar of Jewish sociology, offers an analysis of why the approach taken by TABS has found such a large audience among the Orthodox at this time.

Moses and R. Judah HaNasi implore: “I would be most grateful if you would maintain the Torah after me.”^[1]

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How Jews responded to the celebration of Jesus' birth by creating a cynical version of Christmas Eve lampooning him.

Lernen versus learning, davenen versus prayer: an ethnographic analysis of how Orthodox Jews define themselves.

To uphold the covenant, Deuteronomy requires two forms of torah study: Learning the commandments and learning the reasons for keeping them. But what happens if even that fails?

Deuteronomy envisions a king constantly reading torah and limiting his wealth and resources. Is this how kings are described in the rest of the Bible?