Shabbat

During December and early January the South African population enjoys vacation time. To have a rest and to have a break from one’s yearly work and duties is a good thing, as it allows one to gather strengths physically and spiritually for the new secular year. Where do we find this concept in the Torah [...]

This week is the last week of the year. Thursday is the last Thursday and Friday is the last Friday and Shabbat is the last Shabbat. We must try to do something extra each day to make up for all these Fridays and Shabbatot we may have allowed to slip past without any good deeds. [...]

There is a simply gorgeous concept that I came across in this last week’s Parashat Hashavua. After describing the sin of the golden calf the Torah introduces us to the building of the Mishkan, the travelling Tabernacle that literally become Hashem’s house in this world. Until our ancestors committed this sin, G-d, as it were [...]

If you examine the entire 10 commandments, which are mentioned twice in the Torah, once in this week’s Parasha, Yitro and once towards the end of the Torah in Deuteronomy, you will notice that there is not even one single novel idea. These words, which have had such an overwhelmingly positive impact on all mankind [...]

While Abraham may have been the first Jew, he was certainly not the first person to believe in one G-d. He was indeed the very first to discover G-d all on his own but there were many who preceded him and who were contemporaneous with him who had a tradition passed down to them that [...]