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...