This week’s double Torah portion, Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1–27:34), presents insights into justice, fairness, and societal balance; concepts at the heart of mediation and dispute resolution. A ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton of the Or Haneshama congregation in Ottowa, Canada. Rabbi Bolton was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1996. After serving as ...

In this week’s Torah portion, it is written: I broke the pegs of your yoke and led you upright. (Leviticus 26:13). On this verse, Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch (one of the early leaders of Chasidism) ...

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The Torah proclaims that a house in a walled city may be sold in perpetuity, but the owner has the right of repurchase during the first year of the sale (Leviticus 25:29, 30). Interestingly, the word ...