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Human history – like any great piece of literature – presents a story that is not only inspiring and dramatic on the surface but also allegorically rich with hidden meaning and deep moral lessons. The ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

I met a man on my hospital rounds with a full head of white hair, powerful arms and a purposeful gaze who was dying of leukemia. He was the president of a corporation, he told me, and his current ...

The bulk of Parashat Ha’azinu is Moshe’s swan-song, the final Song that he sang and taught to all Israel in his final day in this world: “Listen, O Heavens, and I will speak, and hear, O Earth, the ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Sivan Malkin Maas, Dean of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism. Rabbi Maas is the first Israeli rabbi ordained by the International Institute for ...

“Hear [ha’azinu], O heavens, and I will speak, and may the earth listen [tishma] to the words of my mouth” (Deuteronomy 32:1). So begins the song of Moses just prior to his death. Hearing and ...

As we near the end of the Torah and the accounts of Moshe Rabbeinu’s life, we encounter a most unusual section – nearly an entire parsha, set up as a song, which predicts poor behavior of the Jewish ...

The Haftorah that accompanies Ha’azinu, taken from II Samuel 22, is also a song: King David’s hymn of gratitude after being saved from his enemies. Two of Israel’s greatest leaders – Moses and David – ...

Moses advises the people of Israel that, in times of difficulty, shirah (song) will bear witness that the covenant with Israel “shall not be forgotten from the mouth of its offspring” (Deuteronomy ...