The Torah’s sympathetic attitude toward ecology surfaces in a law legislating conduct during war. “When you besiege a city for many days to wage war against it, to seize it, do not destroy its trees ...

Why would the prophet compare oppression to drunkedness? Isaiah is not referencing actual addiction, but rather producing a subtle analysis of oppression. Scholars have long grappled with the ...

Rabbi Hertz (commentary to Deuteronomy 16:20) expounds at length on the Jewish definition of justice, and contrasts it with classical Greek thought. For the ancient Greeks, he notes, justice “implies ...

I can remember one of the first spiritual-psychological Chasidic texts that I studied, a text that opened the gates to a lifetime of study. When I was about 28 years old – 1982 – one of my teachers ...