Matot

The Blessing of Children, Specifically for Menashe – part II

Parashat Hashavua: Enlistment in the Time of Yehoshua and David

The Complexity of Human Rights

Let’s Hear It For The Girls

Mad About You

This week’s Sedra begins with a discussion of nedarim – vows & oaths. While the world holds that an oral contract is "only as good as the paper it’s written on," Judaism & the Torah place great emphasis on the power of speech.

About Vows and Sensitivity

Take it upon yourself, without a vow, to correct one thing in your life, and these days will work their true action - to add goodness in the world.

How Vows Are Like Idol-Worship

The beginning of this week's Torah portion of Matot focuses on certain important details pertaining to the laws of vows and oaths. A Torah-mandated oath is one by which one forbids himself to engage in one or more otherwise permitted activities. This leads us to ask a very fundamental question...

Oaths and Vows

Can freedom and order coexist in the human sphere? Can there be a society which is both free and just at the same time?