Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of blessed memory, points out that prayer and prophecy are two sides of the same coin. While both involve dialogue between the human being and God, there is one major ...

Maybe it's really lucky that WhatsApp didn't exist when Bnei Yisrael were building the Mishkan. It's very likely that if Moshe had sent the instructions for constructing the Mishkan in the "Avadim ...

Forty-six years later, as we approach Tisha B’Av and the disdain between Haredim and non-Haredim over the draft grows more ...

We read in Parshas Ki Sisa that immediately upon notifying Moshe Rabbeinu that Betzalel would be in charge of constructing the Mishkan, with the assistance of Oholiav, and enumerating all of the ...

We offer the world hope that it can withstand this tidal wave of hatred and escape the abyss of confusion. We have endured. So can you. We will show you the way. The Mishkan (Tabernacle) served as an ...

As we proceed into the parshiot preceding the holidays of springtime, dealing with the design and construction of the Mishkan, we will take a few weeks to examine the insights of the Malbim into the ...

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Why is the construction of the Mishkan juxtaposed with Shabbat in the beginning of this Shabbat’s reading? When God created the world he unleashed His unlimited power to create all forms of ...

Parashat Vayakhel consists of 1,558 Hebrew words and 122 verses. All but 30 of its words and three of its verses talk about the building of the mishkan, the portable sanctuary where the Israelites ...

Moshe assembled the entire congregation of Israel to give the second set of tablets. He proceeded to recount in detail what G!d wanted of them which includes keeping the Sabbath holy and a detailed ...