Our guest this week is Rabbi Benjamin Samuels, leader of Congregation Shaarei Tefillah of Newton, Massachusetts. Rabbi Samuels is the President of the Vaad Harabonim of Massachusetts and a member of ...

Moses understood that genuine service of God is not found in thunder and lightning but rather in the place of fog, confusion, and lack of clarity. One of the greatest and most formative moments in ...

Our guest this week is Moshe Weinger Yeshiva University. This week’s Torah portion – Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) – begins with the advice given by Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, to the people of ...

Throughout much of history, it was hard for the Jews have to find true friends. Facing a frequently hostile world, when they came across an unusually cooperative gentile, it came as a bit of a ...

History’s first convert is introduced in this week’s Parshah; Yitro had been the father-in-law of Moshe for decades, but is only inspired to join the Jewish people after hearing about the splitting of ...

When we think of Parashat Yitro, our attention usually goes straight to Mount Sinai and the Ten Commandments. The revelation, the covenant, the defining moment of Jewish history. But the Torah does ...

Parashat Yitro contains one of the Torah’s most enduring and quietly radical political teachings. Before Sinai, before thunder and tablets, Moses’ Midianite father-in-law looks at the emerging ...

It is for this reason that Yishayahu feels so uncomfortably out of place in the heavenly abode. As he shares with the angels, “Woe is me; I am lost! For I am a man of impure lips, and I live among a ...

Parashat Yitro opens by telling us that “Yitro [Jethro], the Minister of Midian, Moshe’s father-in-law, heard everything that G-d had done to Moshe and to Israel His nation, that Hashem had taken ...

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz shares wisdom from Parshat Yitro about putting aside one’s ego and working together for the common good. With all the uncertainties around us — climate change, public health ...