This week’s Parsha, Yitro, devotes an unusually extensive level of detail to the activities that Yitro engaged in immediately after Bnei Yisrael (Children of Israel) left Egypt. Since the Torah is not ...
Parashat Yitro contains one of the Torah’s most enduring and quietly radical political teachings. Before Sinai, before thunder and tablets, Moses’ Midianite father-in-law looks at the emerging ...
Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook, in his commentary on the Chumash, points out that Beshalach is a very large parsha with many momentous events in it, but it’s followed by Yitro, a relatively short parsha with ...