"ועשו לי מקדש ושכנתי בתוכם" And they shall make Me a sanctuary (Mikdash) and I will dwell in their midst. Parashat Shmini presents the commencement of the service of Aaron as High Priest in Mishkan ...

According to Rambam and the Sefer HaChinuch (and other mitzva counters, but not all), we go back to Parshat B'shalach for the first of the Torah's five mitzvot concerning Shabbat. Specifically, we ...

The Rashash suggests another explanation as to why the Torah felt it necessary to exclude a minor from the punishment of kareis when he enters the Mikdash in a tamei state. He says that the pasuk is ...

The ambiguity of mikdash me'at is that of the exile experience itself, one of suffering and restriction and yet of great creativity and achievement. But it is only me'at, small, compared to what the ...

Noach’s Ark was by all counts an impressive craft. The dimensions are given in Bereishit 6:14: 300 amot (cubits) long; 50 amot wide and 30 amot high. That, in modern terms, is approximately 564’ x 95’ ...

A couple months after we made Aliyah, I was invited to join a weekly Talmud study group, a chabura. The one and a half to two hours every Friday morning spent learning with that close-knit group is a ...