articles on Matot
Lessons on Matot

The Complexity of Human Rights
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tammuz 5783

Let’s Hear It For The Girls
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tammuz 5783

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.
Rabbi Stewart Weiss

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.
Rabbi Haggai Lundin | Tamuz 23 5782

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...
Various Rabbis | Tammuz 23 5782

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?
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tamuz 22 5782
The Personal Interest in Advancing the Jewish Nation
Israel National Torah
Explaining why G-d commanded Moshe to take vengeance against the Midianites and not the Moabites - the act of one woman who chose to advance the Jewish People's mission over her own physical and financial comfort.
Baruch Gordon | Tammuz 29 5781
