You must not be a bystander when an individual needs help; and you must not be a bystander when the world needs you.

Rav Kook was a prominent rabbinical authority and active public leader, but at the same time a deeply religious mystic. He ...

The story of the Tanur Shel Achnai affirms that legal interpretation belongs to human beings. God has ceded legal authority ...

The haftara to Parshat Naso is lifted from Sefer Shoftim/Judges 13:2-25. Haftarot, as we all know, are excerpts from the ...

“Sometimes, I feel like you’re pretzeling.” Take, for example, the “Sotah ritual,” a test the Torah outlines for women accused of adultery. They are supposed to drink an inky ...

The October 7 onslaught began with 70 terrorists who carried out a surprise assault at several points along the border of the Gaza Strip, according to sources close to the leadership of Hamas’s ...

In Rabbinic texts, this woman is referred to as a sotah, literally, “one who goes astray.” There is no way to determine in court whether this woman has sinned or whether her husband has been ...

In rabbinic texts, such a woman is referred to as a sotah (one who goes astray) and this is the common term used to reference the biblical text, as well. There is no certain way to determine ...

The sotah laws seem so out of sync with our ethical sensibilities (Numbers 5:11–31). To demand that a woman suspected by her husband of infidelity drink “the waters of bitterness” and ...

Just in time for the start of learning daily Mesechas Sotah, a clear and concise daily podcast with Rabbi Mendel Yusewitz makes the study of Masechas Sotah more accessible than ever. Full Story Just ...

The signs preceding Moshiach’s arrival are discussed in the very last mishna in tractate Sotah (9:15), which appears on the last page of the tractate in the Talmud (49b). There, it says: With the ...