Our guest today is Rabbi Jonathan Roos, leader of the Temple Sinai congregation in Washington, DC. Rabbi Roos was ordained as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College in 2002. He graduated from the ...

Rabbi Jessica E. Locketz is the rabbi and director of education of Temple Emanuel, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Rabbi Locketz oversees family and youth programming, serving as the educational leader of the ...

My teacher, Rabbi Jack Cohen of blessed memory, would teach: If we feel different after prayer, we know our prayer has worked. The goal of prayer is not to change outside circumstances but rather our ...

There is a common thread running through many of the diverse subjects in our double Torah portion, Matot-Masei. Shortly before our ancestors enter the Land, thought must be given to communal ...

The agenda for daily Jewish learning touches the core of what it means to be a Jew, as well as a human being. In the finite act of study, we attempt to understand the infinite. In our double portion ...

This Shabbat, we read two Torah portions: “Matot” and “Masei.” In “Matot,” we learn a profound lesson – one of the foundations of Judaism. It takes place after the plague that struck the Israelite ...

Only Aaron’s specific date of death is recorded in the Torah: “And Aaron died…in the fifth month [Av], on the first day of the month” (Numbers 33:38). We remember the deceased on the yahrzeit, the ...

In the Torah reading of Matot, we’re informed how the tribes of Gad and Reuben were blessed with a significant wealth of flocks. The leadership of those tribes demanded of Moses to let them stay on ...