By Rabbi Elie Mischel Change or continuity? Revolution or tradition? Throughout the modern age, our society has been caught between the values of tradition and stability on the one hand, and the...
Respectful Disobedience
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Gideon’s Proud Legacy of Respect
By Rabbi Elie Mischel The Hebrew Bible is careful with its words. When introducing a new protagonist, the Bible rarely tells us about their background. Famously, the story of Abraham begins when he...
The Greatness of Gideon
By Rabbi Eliezer Mischel As a synagogue rabbi in New Jersey, I often thought of the classic insight that “no good deed goes unpunished.” While celebrating happy events like weddings and bar...
The Timeless Charm of Jerusalem
By Rabbi Avraham Norin The Ariel Center is a small museum, hidden within the winding alleyways of the Old City of Jerusalem. Out of all the incredible museums Jerusalem has to offer, this one has a...
Yael: Sacrificing Morality for God
By Rabbi Elie Mischel Would you consider a woman who seduces an army general, lulls him to sleep, and then murders him to be a religious hero? Incredibly, the Bible does! “…Yael came out to greet...
Making the Sabbath Holy
To truly experience the holiness of God’s day, one day a week, we must disengage from worldly affairs and from our financial identities.
Celebrating Life – or Death?
By Rabbi Elie Mischel On January 27th, 2023, a Palestinian terrorist murdered seven Israelis, including a 14-year-old boy, at a synagogue in Jerusalem. Incredibly, the terrorist chose to carry out...
Modesty Matters
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz The wonderful thing about the Bible is that it contains everything. All the life wisdom you could possibly need is found inside its pages. Astrophysicists are just...
The Warrior Legacy of King David
King David started life as a shepherd but he came from a military family. I imagine his brothers coming home on leave, sitting at the dinner table, telling war stories to their red-headed little...
An Obligation to Serve?
By Rabbi Elie Mischel When I graduated from my Boston area high school about 25 years ago, I chose to spend a year and a half in Israel, where I studied the Bible and Jewish wisdom at a yeshiva (a...
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The Israel Bible will succeed in helping readers of Tanakh better understand its geographical context and better perceive some of its contemporary resonances.
Rabbi Dr. Shalom Carmy
Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Bible, Yeshiva University
When you open The Israel Bible and see… lessons about Israel, you see that Israel is the Torah’s main theme and begin to understand the major role that it plays.
Rabbi Yehudah Glick
Member of The Knesset,
Israel’s Parliament
Jews and Christians share a biblical heritage, and The Israel Bible shows even more clearly that this is the land God chose for the Jewish people.
Pastor Keith Johnson
Founder, Biblical Foundations Academy International
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