Statue of Moses by Michelangelo in Rome. (Credit: Fr Barry Braum//Unsplash.) Listen The life of prayer is not easy. It’s a tremendous blessing and encouragement, therefore, to see others pray and to ...

For God’s compassion, to absolve the vow. Moses asks G-d to rather erase his name From the annals of events in the Torah. God listens to Moses, his confidant’s plea; And manifests Divine humility.

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David Brooks, in his bestselling book The Road to Character (2015), draws a sharp distinction between what he calls the résumé virtues – the achievements and skills that bring success – and the eulogy ...

We begin the third book of the Torah, the book known as Torat Kohanim, the book of the priest-ministers of the Divine Sanctuary, guardians of the rituals connecting Israel to God. Known in English as ...

George W. Bush, a US president whose intellectual ability is not the greatest quality by which he seems to have been apparently endowed, identifies ...

They say there are no more prophets. The Rabbis agreed that the last biblical prophets were Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. Many people would like to obtain prophecy nowadays, but we see from ...