The birds of Jerusalem welcomed brother sun’s rise with morning songs. The shadow cast by the Second Temple pointed westward toward the governor’s palace. It was westward, toward the palace, that the ...

of its use not conscious. They washed when they entered the Tent of Meeting and when they approached the altar—as יהוה had commanded Moses. The Torah Temimah suggests that this verse tells us that ...

Billions know the Roman governor’s name. But he didn’t know the very son of God standing before him. I am in the apparently small category of men unconcerned with the Roman Empire. I could probably ...