How the Creation Story is the Answer to Peace in the Middle East

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz An old friend of mine used to learn at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva (school for Torah study) in Jerusalem. While learning there, he used to visit Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, a leader in the Religious Zionist movement, who was...

Live for Today

By Chaim Barzel This week we start reading the Torah over again from the beginning. At the end of each day of creation, the Bible counts the day: 'one day', 'second day', 'third day', 'fourth day'… In Psalm 90, Moses says, ‘Teach us to...

Why Are We Commanded to Both Remember and Observe the Sabbath?

After leaving Egypt and seeing the wonders of God’s greatness at the splitting of the Reed Sea, the Children of Israel prepared themselves for three days to receive the Torah at Mount Sinai. The Torah describes how God descended upon...

The Seven Days of Creation in Jewish Art

Emily Shapiro Katz, an artist and educator in Israel, presents a unique perspective on the seven days of creation in Jewish art, as part of a course for The Israel Bible Academy, recorded in October 2020. She presents artwork from the...

Haftarah Bereishit – The Bible is Our Mandate

After a devastating period of Arab violence in Mandatory Palestine, the British conducted the Peel Commission in 1937 to determine how best to divide Eretz Yisrael between the Jews and Arabs. It was the Peel Commission where they first...