Rav Lachem Shevet

The second chapter of Bereshit provides us with seven verses on the architecture of the Garden of Eden: ח וַיִּטַּ֞ע יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים...

Published in 1996, Shin Shifra and Yakov Klein's בימים הרחוקים ההם is an anthology of Near Eastern literature, translated directly to...

So here is an interesting lecture . Professor Tamar Ross speaks about her paper The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Statements: R...

I originally heard about Shmuel Klitsner's book Wrestling Jacob on Sarah Rindner's excellent Book of Books blog . It sat on my list...

Keruvim on the aron The Keruvim are two winged creatures that appear in parshat Terumah as part of the Mishkan. There are two golden Ker...

So I'm through the first 2 of 3 parts of Rabbi Natan Slifkin's "The Challange of Creation" , so I'd like to collec...

Rav Natan Slifkin's book "The Challenge of Creation" finally arrived, so I've started reading that. I'm quite fond of ...

The idea of midrash(aggadah) has always bothered me a bit. The main problem is the subjectivity of it all. Unlike other realms of Torah L...

Let's talk about reconciling the Torah's story with that of contemporary of science. I'm not an expert in either Tanach or scie...