articles on Matot
Lessons on Matot

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

Conflict Resolution
One of the hardest tasks of any leader – from Prime Ministers to parents – is conflict resolution. Yet it is also the most vital. Where there is leadership, there is long-term cohesiveness within the group, whatever the short-term problems.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tammuz 28 5781

My Vows I Shall Fulfill
Can performing a mitzvah become a liability? What does it mean that I am doing something “bli neder”? “My friend Billy Nader says bli neder on almost everything. Is this being too frum?”
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tammuz 28 5781
Coincidence or Intentional
The combination of these two sections of the Torah constitutes the question, as to whether there is a connection between these two Parshiot, or is it just a matter of calendar convenience that unites them is one Torah reading on this coming Sabbath.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Tammuz 27 5781
