Thank God, Allah has long had a diet that is good for humans both physically and spiritually. That diet is found in the Torah and in the Qur’an. Over many centuries the various legal schools have ...

Shepherding is not a neutral occupation. It is a spiritual discipline. It requires patience, attentiveness, gentleness, and restraint. Animals cannot be persuaded by rhetoric or commanded by fear.

Toward the end of the parashah, Moshe reads words of the Torah aloud to the people, and they proclaim the famous, ...

The lectionary gospel reading for the last Sunday before Lent in Year A, is Matt 17.1–9, Matthew's account of the Transfiguration. You can find video discussion of this commentary here and posted at ...

The decadence of society actually begins with the double-edged version of the tenth commandment as found in the second text: And do not lust for your friend's wife and do not covet his home etc.