"With some exceptions, the Jewish people have always been beset by external conflict and inner turmoil." Mijal Bitton writes for My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge.

The notion of revelation has within it a belief in an ongoing relationship even through difficult times and betrayal.

On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai. But why were the Jews the ones to receive it?

The spiritual high of the revelation at Mount Sinai is a core component of the traditional understanding of Shavuot; the Tosefta tells a very different story of the revelation.

The quintessential encounter with Torah may be a set of tablets, finite and concrete, but in the digital age, the sea of Torah is more massive and more present than ever before.

Jennifer Raskas shares a number of different approaches and insights to the Book of Ruth.

A short story on Matan Torah

What we can learn from the traditional reading for Shavuot in the shadow of the deaths and continued threat of COVID-19.

Revisit Yehuda Kurtzer's 2013 lecture that brings David Hartman's classic essay into a particular contemporary relevance

Rabbinic webinar for Shavuot 5780

The first of a two-part study guide and lecture by Christine Hayes about Moses and the giving of the Torah at Sinai.

The second of a two-part study guide and lecture by Christine Hayes about Moses and the giving of the Torah at Sinai.

Orit Avnery discusses the human aspects of the Book of Ruth