Sometimes free is expensive. Just consider those free miles (with your annual credit card), that free laptop (with 20 membership signups) and free gas (with a new car and up to 10,000 miles a year).

Jews have an aversion to counting people. Walk into a winter mincha minyan and Jews use ten-word verses to verify the minyan. To the minyanaire, no sweeter word than haolam.

Two major concepts, Shemitta and Yovel, are linked in text, time and tone. And yet, in ways obvious and subtle, they differ far more than they converge.

In a sweeping set of edicts at the beginning of Parshat Behar, the Torah regulates the sale of land within Jewish society.

We all want to be it and to make it. I refer to the great and exalted mitzvah of kiddush Hashem (sanctifying God’s name) [Vayikra, 22:23]

As Parshat Emor continues with its description of the festival cycle, we encounter a holiday shrouded in mystery.

The Torah obligates a landowner to a series of five mandatory matanot la’evyonim, “gifts to the poor.” Four of these obligations are recorded in Parshat Kedoshim.

Everybody but Chazal knows that the aseres hadibros (Ten Commandments) appear only twice in the Torah (Yisro and Vaeschanan). In the sharp analysis of R. Levi, a third, more eclectic sighting can also be found in the opening section of Kedoshim.