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Weekly Torah
The concluding chapters of the book of Numbers include a detailed description of the forty two journeys taken by the children of Israel as they made their way across the wilderness. This is nothing less than a spiritual travelogue that serves as sign posts for each and every one of us as we make our own journeys across the sands of time which make up our lives.
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Matot-Masei (Numbers 30:2-36:13)
Parashat Matot-Masei is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 26, 5769/July 18, 2009
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Who was Pinchas? Where did he come from? What was he made of? Was his act of zealotry a true “Jewish” reaction? Was his ability to act in the moment to defend G-d’s honor, to assuage G-d’s anger a true “Jewish” reaction? Absolutely!
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Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1)
Parashat Pinchas is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 19, 5769/July 11, 2009
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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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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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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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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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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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