Rabbi Arian's Ruminations

I frequently talk about the way North American Jews often mistranslate the word "mitzvah" as "good deed" when in fact...

Dear Friends: Those of you who attend Shabbat morning services regularly hear me make the same point over and over: many of the translatio...

 When I began my rabbinical studies, I had a good background in Hebrew (from having spent a college year in Israel) and in both Bible and ...

Here’s an interesting statistic for you to ponder: in 1994, half of the world’s population had never made a telephone call. Fifteen year...

In a recent discussion on Ravnet, the e-mail group for Conservative rabbis, one of my colleagues shared a question that was asked him by a...

The Sefat Emet, a Chasidic commentator who lived about 100 years ago, teaches us that the reason the generation of the Exodus merited rede...

You are probably familiar with the story of Moses killing the Egyptian overseer who was beating a Hebrew slave, which appears in Exodus 2...