JTS Torah Commentary

Horayot 1:2

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

How up-to-date must you keep for compliance?

Zevachim 4:6

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

What intentions are necessary to make a sacrifice valid?

Menahot 3:7

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

Is there partial credit for mitzvot?

Chullin 7:6

Jan 1, 2008

When did the mitzvot originate?

Bekhorot 4:4

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

Is a judge personally liable for his flawed decisions?

Arakhin 3:5

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

When is verbal assault considered worse than physical damage?

Temurah 4:2

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

What happens to recovered property that had once been dedicated for a sacrifice?

Keritot 1:7

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

What is the relationship between ritual practice and the marketplace?

Me’ilah 5:1

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

Is it a crime if you cause no damage?

Tamid 3:2

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

When did the morning sacrifice begin?

Middot 2:2

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

How can building design and building use reinforce religious values?

Kinim 3:6

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

The silver lining of aging and death

Ohalot 1:6

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

What criteria define death?

Kelim 5:7

Jan 1, 2008 By Daniel Nevins | Text Study

How does one purify an oven?

The Attention Seeking Bush

Dec 29, 2007 By David M. Ackerman | Commentary | Shemot

A recent collection of one-liners and witticisms entitled 1,003 Great Things About Being Jewishcontains a section called “What Passersby Said About the Burning Bush.”

Jealousy As a Test of Virtue

Dec 14, 2007 By Daniel Nevins | Commentary | Vayiggash

Gifts can make you crazy. Picking them is hard, and so is accepting them with grace.

Joseph the Righteous One

Dec 1, 2007 By David Hoffman | Commentary | Vayeshev

I have always been deeply curious as to why—of all the characters in the Torah—the Rabbis attributed to Joseph the appellation, “ha-Tzadik” (the righteous).

Jacob’s Struggle Is Our Struggle

Nov 24, 2007 By Marc Wolf | Commentary | Vayishlah

“In olden times when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which was seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face.”

Blessings From a Deathbed

Nov 22, 2007 By Charles Savenor | Commentary | Vayehi

Laying on his deathbed, Jacob beckons for his grandchildren, Ephraim and Manasseh.

Why Are We Called the People of Israel?

Nov 17, 2007 By Edward Feld | Commentary | Vayetzei

We are called not the People Abraham, nor the People Isaac, rather we are called the People Israel, named for the third of the patriarchal family, Jacob.