NYJW Sabbath Week

This week, Moses goes to law school. Contending with Pharaoh had been easy — it came with a magic staff and miracles. Even last week’s Ten Commandments were child’s play compared to this week’s crash course on bailment, theft, kidnapping, labor law, the indigent, mayhem and murder. And this was just the first lecture. “This […]

If the Torah were merely a rule book, then the Revelation on Mount Sinai would have been a list of laws and prohibitions akin to the Code of Hammurabi. The Torah, of course, is more than a legal compendium. Rather, it teaches us how to live, how to give, how to bless, even how to […]