Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto concludes: “Through complete devotion to the Holy Torah and the attribute of holiness, a person can achieve lofty insights and fulfill the divine potential hidden within his soul ...

Charlie introduces the work of Marc Michaels, a scribe, who writes Torah scrolls by hand, showing how these holy words are respected and preserved through his work. This is a powerful expression ...

Avraham, Moshe, Yehoshua, and David are towering examples of Jewish holiness – scholars and soldiers, men of morality and the military. To be holy and heroic is seamlessly part of the Torah’s ...

another image flashed before me – that of what Ashkenazim call a “Bimah” and Sephardim call a “Tevah” – the podium in the synagogue where one receives an Aliyah to the Torah.

They believe that the Torah, the five books of Moses ... At once a community leader and a zaddik, or holy man, the rebbe acts as a ladder between man and God, and is thus the center of a Hasidic ...

High Holy Days: A term often used to describe the holidays falling during the Hebrew month of Tishrei (often overlapping with September and October), the High Holy Days/Holidays include Rosh Hashanah, ...

Our holy book is actually a collection of books called the Tanakh, and the first five, known as the Torah are the most important. In the shul, we usually read the Torah aloud in Hebrew from ...

throwing a Torah scroll on the floor and stepping on it. The vandals used electric tools to saw open the Holy Ark, apparently with the knowledge that the noise would not be heard outside ...