This week’s haftarah marks the three weeks leading up to Tisha B’av and uses Jeremiah’s words to do so, when Israelites are building walls.
In the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, archeologist Indiana Jones vies to recover the Ark of the Covenant, featured in this week’s parashah.
Building Solomon’s Temple was perhaps the greatest feat ever of Jewish architecture. This week’s haftarah explores this more.
What composes the inner grit, the resilient core of a person? Whatever it is, Pharoah is notoriously lacking.
In the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple, God explains that God has not in fact abandoned Zion.