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Weekly Torah Portion: Balak

The power of speech differentiates man from all of creation. And with the power of speech comes the power to bring good into the world and sanctify creation, or to bring evil into the world, and denigrate creation. Moshe used speech to achieve the former. Bila’am, the heathen prophet, used speech to achieve the latter.

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Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 12, 5769/July 4, 2009

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Weekly Torah Portion: Chukat

In this age of instant access to endless information, we are tempted to try to know everything! Is curiosity necessarily a good thing, or is it sometimes, as our sages suggest, an offshoot of arrogance?

True wisdom is in the acknowledgment that there are things that lie beyond our intellectual grasp. This wisdom is the portal to purity.

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Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)
Parashat Chukat is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 5, 5769/June 27, 2009

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Weekly Torah Portion: Korach

In praise of women: They avoided the sin of the golden calf; they did not participate in the badmouthing of the land of Israel. And in parashat Korach, we learn how the wife of On ben Pelet prevented her husband from taking part in the rebellion of Korach and helped him to repent of his original intentions. Stand by your man? Stand by your woman!
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Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)
Parashat Korach is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 28, 5769/June 20, 2009

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Weekly Torah Portion: Shlach

Twelve spies are sent to Israel to gather intelligence and report back to Moshe and the people. Knowing full well that the children of Israel would inherit the land of Israel due to the merit of the forefathers Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya’akov, who received G-d’s promise, Calev ben Yefuneh made a detour to Hevron and the cave of the Machpelah, in order to pray and spiritually unite with the souls of the righteous patriarchs.

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Shlach (Numbers 13:1-15:41)
Parashat Shlach is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 21, 5769/June 13, 2009

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Weekly Torah Portion: Beha’alotcha

Remembering free food in Egypt: How could the children of Israel have eaten free food in Egypt, when, as slaves, they even had to provide for the raw materials for the very bricks that they were compelled to produce? It wasn’t the monetary value of the food that they were referring to, but the idea that they were free from responsibility, free from the “yoke” of Torah, the covenant of Sinai.

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Beha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)
Parashat Beha’alotcha is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 14, 5769/June 6, 2009

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Weekly Torah Portion: Naso

‘Fessing up: “The L-rd then spoke to Moses saying: Tell the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits any of the sins against man to act treacherously against G-d, and that person is [found] guilty,they shall confess the sin they committed, and make restitution for the principal amount of his guilt, add its fifth to it, and give it to the one against whom he was guilty.” (Numbers 5:5-7) When the person who has erred makes an oral confession the confession itself removes the sin from his essence and the person returns to his true self.

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Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89)
Parashat Naso is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 7, 5769/May 30, 2009

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Weekly Torah Portion: Bemidbar

Just as the Levites receive in the opening chapters of the book of Numbers, (Parashat Bemidbar), their appointed tasks in the service of G-d, so must we also strive to discover that appointed task in the service of HaShem for which we were brought into this world to fulfill.
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Bemidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)
Parashat Bemidbar is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 29, 5769/May 23, 2009

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