4 March 2026 – 15 Adar 5786 | Torah Commentary
The story of the Golden Calf represents an enormous trauma in Israelite and later Jewish history, so enormous that ”the Sin of the Calf” is referred to many times in later texts. It is worth looking a little at what (or so it is reported) happened. The...
1 January 2026 – 12 Tevet 5786 | Torah Commentary
The first book of the Torah draws to an end but the story will go on. (Spoiler alert! There are are four more books still to get through before next Simchat Torah.) First the life of Jacob draws to an end – the Torah is very specific that ”the days grow...
29 October 2025 – 7 Heshvan 5786 | Torah Commentary
I suspect that these days an Iraqi emigrant fleeing from Syria and claiming to do so because God had told him to leave would not get a very sympathetic hearing. First: What is the family situation that Avram leaves when he sets off from Haran to Canaan? After all,...
