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Weekly Torah
Imagination vs Reality: Our imagination is a blessed aspect of our humanity, but it must be reigned in to serve the greater good that is the reality in which we live and serve G-d. This is the lesson that Moshe will spend the final 37 days of his life on this earth teaching Israel, and this is the lesson that we must take home with us on Shabbat Chazon: The Holy Temple that we see in our mind’s eye is the one that we will build with our own two hands.
Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22)
Parashat Devarim is read on Shabbat:
Av 9, 5772/July 28, 2012
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The two Torah portions, Matot and Masei, which conclude the book of Numbers are read together as one. What is the true connection between Matot, which begins with the laws concerning the responsibility of taking upon oneself a vow, and the opening verses of Masei, which describe the journeys of Israel in the wilderness? Taken together, they provide for us a key and a map to our own life’s journey, and shine a light on our own potential.
Matot-Masei (Numbers 30:2-36:13)
Parashat Matot-Masei is read on Shabbat:
Av 2, 5772/July 21, 2012
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Continuity – That’s the concept that is embodied in multiple levels in the Torah reading of Pinchas. The experience of Israel in the desert is coming to a close, but the desecration of Zimri and Cozbi threatens everything, Pinchas’ swift and certain response guarantees the continuity the sanctity of Israel. The daughters of Tzelaphchad and the designation of Yehoshua to succeed Moshe as leader of Israel naturally follow Pinchas’ heroic act. The parasha concludes with a description of the Tamid offering, the sanctification of continuity itself, in the service of the Holy Temple.
Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1)
Parashat Pinchas is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 24, 5772/July 14, 2012
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It’s the same old story, as old as Scripture. Only the names have been changed: Do whatever needs to be done, and say whatever needs to be said, in order to attain this single goal: Keep the Jews out of the land of Israel, where, G-d forbid, they made do some good in the world! What was true for Bilaam and Balak of yore is true for all the strange bedfellows of today, who join forces in an ever increasingly desperate attempt to stop Israel from reintroducing G-d’s immanence into the world.
Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 17, 5772/July 7, 2012
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Going through all these things twice: The generation of the desert, like Adam, the first man, failed to appreciate the gifts that G-d gives us. Adam blamed the woman G-d gave him for his own eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and the Israelites in the desert complained about the spiritually refined nourishment known as manna, with which G-d kept them fed for forty years. Is it any wonder that the evil-tongued snake made an appearance in both cases, here being used by G-d as an instrument to exact from Israel a price for their flagrant disregard?
Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)
Parashat Chukat is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 10, 5772/June 30, 2012
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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!
Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)
Parashat Korach is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 3, 5772/June 23, 2012
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