Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Matan Torah: A New Creation Narrative

The Torah is our blueprint and life map, there to direct us through the darkest of days. In Parshat Yitro we read about the experience of Bnei Yisrael as they received the Torah, a transformative ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Torah was a gift — and ‘fair use’ is the very point of revelation

Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed to Moses in the ...
Jewish Press

Was There Food On Har Sinai? – Parshat Mishpatim

Moshe wrote the first portion of the Torah (from Bereishit until Matan Torah) and awoke early to build an altar at the foot of the mountain, together with twelve stone monuments, one for each tribe.
Jewish United Fund

I hear America singing, except it’s in Hebrew.

Approaching Shavuot, the time of matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, I have heard the song of the new Torah reader in a storefront minyan, and the song of the Jew by choice; the singing of Torah in ...
The Forward

The End of Women-Only Torah Study?

It is a sad week for women’s Torah study, with the news that the Advanced Talmudic Institute at Matan — founded 24 years ago by Rabbanit Malke Bina — is closing its doors. Matan did not confirm its ...