Rabbi Shlomo Bekhor Husin of Baghdad documented the exemptions, carefully jotting each down name in medieval Rashi script. In the following decades, many of those names vanished or morphed as ...

The opening verse of Parashat Vayeshev raises a profound question, explains Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto: What is the essence of serenity? Rashi teaches us that Jacob sought peace and tranquility ...

Ten of the eleven potions in the book of Exodus and many portions in other of the five books of Moses begin with the Hebrew letter vav. Why? How should it be translated? Lexicographer Reuben Alcalay ...

Rabbi Zvi wasn’t just anyone ... From the womb, Jacob was righteous, Esau, wicked. Rashi, the most influential medieval commentator, describes how their distinct natures became evident as ...

Rabbi Yossi Urimis a Torah Mitzion graduate from ... so he made the menorah." Rashi explains the juxtaposition of the section on the menorah to the section on the offerings of the princes ...