The Center For Jewish Thought
By Rabbi Dovid Markel This week’s parsha, Pinchas, expresses something that is perhaps difficult for our modern minds to digest. The modern world-view of political correctness and individual choices cannot absorb the fanaticism...
To view as a Designed PDF, click here. The Talmud states that if an individual sees Pinchas in a dream, “a wonder will be wrought for him.” This Sicha analyses this statement and...
The promise to those that pilgrim to the Temple.
Why does Moshe know the reason for this mitzvah while all others do not?
The Red Hefer and honoring one’s parents
By Rabbi Dovid Markel In this week’s parsha, when discussing the laws of purifying oneself from coming in contact with a corpse, the verse (Bamidbar 19:14) states: “This is the Torah: if a...
A deeper look at the fight of Korach and its lesson in humility.
What was Korach’s fight all about?
By Rabbi Dovid Markel The central theme of both this week’s Torah portion as well as its haftara, is the scouting out of the Land of Israel. In the parsha, Moshe sends the...
What was so terrible about the sin of the spies? Didn’t they follow Moshe’s directive?
Rabbi Avraham Bar Hiyya’s Defense of Astrology
18 Dec, 2015
18 Dec, 2015
The Litigants’ Appointment of the Court
26 Nov, 2015
On The Disqualification of Personal Testimony
11 Nov, 2015
Rabbi Tzadok and Willpower Fatigue
7 Nov, 2015
18 Dec, 2015
From Exile To Redemption (Full Essay)
18 Feb, 2013
9 Dec, 2013
Parshas Noach – Perfect In His Generation
4 Oct, 2013
27 May, 2013
