The prophecy of Jacob over Judah is a profound statement of expectation of the coming Messiah, in which every word – indeed ...

Shavuot, unlike many Jewish holidays, does not take place on the full moon. This celebration, when we study all night to commemorate receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, precedes the night of the ...

I remember learning in my yeshiva high school that the time of Jewish prophecy is dead. God’s intimate connection with his people had been severed because of their iniquity and never again can we ...

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 ...

This week in Parshat Toldot we enter into a cycle of sibling rivalry beginning with Jacob and Esau, a motif that repeats itself through the rest of the Book of Genesis. From the beginning of the ...

A father set out one day to teach his young daughter a powerful lesson. When she woke up in the morning, he took her in front of a mirror and asked her, “What do you see?” She smiled and answered, “I ...

The literature of Jewish prophecy and revelation has ample analogues to psychedelic experiences, writes a rabbi and author. The first question many Jewish users of psychedelics ask is whether there ...

Rabbi Tzadok Hakohen explains that the emergence of Torah Shebe’al Peh (oral Torah, transmitted wisdom) began precisely when ...

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