In short, the answer is: “No”. So, if God did not command us to light candles on the Sabbath, then: why do millions of Jews repeat each week that he did? Answer: “The rabbis”. I will ...

If Captain Joshua can claim God commanded the Israelites to kill Canaanite ... assumptions that now have to be abandoned in the light of Christ. It is abundantly clear from the Gospels that ...

How can a good God command—and engage in—unspeakable horrors ... But is the book of Joshua about genocide? In light of the many internal contradictions within the text and the highly stylized ways ...

Our Holy Torah commands us to understand God to the ... So far, we have seen that the physics of light expresses God’s absoluteness and timelessness. God’s characteristics are deeply embedded ...

The most repeated command in the Bible is some version of "fear not!" It sounds great in theory, but let’s be honest, how can God expect us to not live in fear when everything around us feels so ...

These are God’s first words to us in the Book of Genesis, the opening book of the Bible: “Let there be light!” as He gazed upon the darkness and commenced the sacred enterprise of His ...

Rashi explains that the reference to Shechem and Canaanites in this verse is to draw readers’ attention to the military consequences of Abraham’s obedience of the command to go the land of ...

The Torah, at least during Sukkot, positively demands it. Why does God command us to be happy on Sukkot? I’LL LEAVE it for others to clarify why God chose Sukkot as the holiday during which ...