Dr. David G. Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature, JTS, discusses the importance of Jewish sacred space and the divine blueprint for its assembly in his commentary on Parashat Terumah.

Dr. Vivian Mann, director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture, The Graduate School, JTS, discusses Moses's sight of the Promised Land before his death, man's inability to see God, and the prohibition against making images for worship.

Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies and director, Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies of JTS, explores the need for interreligious dialogue.

Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies and provost of The Jewish Theological Seminary, parallels America's wilderness and the exposure to wilderness during the ritual of Sukkot in his holiday commentary.

Rabbi Marc Wolf, vice chancellor and chief development officer, JTS, explores the shift of focus that occurs between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in his commentary on Parashat Yom Kippur.

Professor Arnold M. Eisen, chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary, discusses the account of the making of Israel through the Covenant at Mount Sinai in his commentary on Parashat Yitro.

Dr. Deborah Miller, associate director of the Melton Research Center for Jewish Education, JTS, discusses physical and emotional perception in her commentary on Parashat Vayera.

Rabbi Andy Shugerman, JTS rabbinic fellow, discusses combating sexual violence, framed by the rape of Dinah and its aftermath, in his commentary on Parashat Va-yishlah.

Rabbi Abigail Treu, rabbinic fellow and director of Planned Giving, JTS, discusses the values the Levitical system describes and bequeaths to us in her commentary on Parashat Va-yikra.

Rabbi Abigail Treu, rabbinic fellow and director of Planned Giving, JTS, discusses the theme of patience in Joseph’s story in her commentary on Parashat Va-yiggash.

Rabbi David Hoffman, scholar-in-residence in the Development Department of JTS, discusses living with gratitude in his commentary on Parashat Va-yetzei.

Rabbi David Levy, director of Admissions for The Rabbinical School and H. L. Miller Cantorial School at JTS, talks about Joseph and his ascention to holiness framed within the order of lighting the Hanukkah candles.

Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and dean of the Division of Religious Leadership, discusses the Torah’s final judgment of Jacob in his commentary on Parashat Va-yehi.

Rabbi Marc Wolf, vice chancellor and chief development officer, JTS, discusses the idea of the proximity of biblical verses and their correlation to greater subject matters in his commentary on Parashat Va-yak·hel.

Dr. Michelle Lynn-Sachs, assistant professor of Jewish Education at JTS, discusses the clothing Israelite priests are commanded to wear during sacrificial rites in her commentary on Parashat Tsav / Shabbat Zachor.

Dr. Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS, explores the ambiguity associated with Rebecca’s oracle in his commentary on Parashat Toledot.

Rabbi David Hoffman, lecturer in the Department of Talmud and Rabbinics and scholar-in-residence in the Development Department at JTS, discusses the use of the pronoun you and all its implications, in his commentary on Parashat Tetzavvah.

Rabbi Marc Wolf, vice chancellor and chief development officer, JTS, discusses the unsettling laws of tum’ah and tohorah (ritual impurity and purity) in his commentary on Parashat Tazri·a.

Professor Arnold M. Eisen, chancellor, JTS, discusses the pursuit of justice and the authorities who are charged with responsibility for it.

Dr. Walter Herzberg, assistant professor of Bible and Professional and Pastoral Skills at JTS, discusses the good that God did for the midwives in his commentary on Parashat Shemot.

Rabbi Matthew Berkowitz, director of Israel Programs, JTS, discusses celebration transformed into mourning in his commentary on Parashat Shemini.

Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, associate professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, discusses “harmful speech” and the distinction between facts and the truth in his commentary on Parashat Shelah Lekha.

Professor Arnold Eisen, chancellor, JTS reads his commentary on Parashat Rosh Hashanah 5771. Visit the JTS High Holiday website: http://www.jtsa.edu/x12165.xml Shanah Tovah!

Rabbi Marc Wolf, vice chancellor and chief development officer, JTS, closely examines what it takes to elevate charity into tzedakah in his commentary on Parashat Reeih.

Rabbi Marc Wolf, vice chancellor and chief development officer at JTS, compares the story of our national origin read at the seder to the ongoing process of nation building in his commentary on Parashat Pesah.