This simple and flavorful element of life plays a key role in this week’s Torah portion, which tells us to include salt in our sacrifices.

The dramatic narrative energy of Sefer Shemot (Book of Exodus) gives way to something quieter and more demanding. The drama of liberation, revelation and the building of the Tabernacle recedes and, in ...

The “cost” of closeness isn’t payment or loss; it’s transformation: yielding ego, committing effort, yearning to approach the Divine. May we merit that kiruv through our tefillah, tzedakah, and daily ...

"You shall not go about spreading slander among your people; nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor's life is at stake" (Leviticus 19:16). This verse comes from Leviticus, the third book of ...

ROCKAWAY TWP. - A new 10-week on-line course on the Biblical Book of Leviticus, titled “Leviticus Live,” will start at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 23, at the Chabad Educational ...

Sigmund Freud argued that sublimation is a defense mechanism, where we take emotionally unacceptable impulses and transform them into socially conventional and constructive activities. He gives an ...