by admin | Jun 30, 2017 | American, American
Parshat Chukat opens with a discussion of the interesting and detailed laws of the Parah Adumah, the Red Heifer. One of the many peculiar elements of this text, one that can easily be overlooked, is the language of acquiring this unique animal – ViYikchu Eilecha, and...
by admin | Jun 29, 2017 | American
PUT YOUR FAITH IN THE GOD OF THE LAND This week’s parashah contains the episode of Mei Merivah (The Waters of Strife), in which Moshe and Aharon are told that they will not enter the Land of Israel. Many interpretations have been given to explain what exactly they...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | American
Rabbi Poupko is the Associate Rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, NJ and the President of the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County. To the casual observer, religion fosters some of the deepest divisions in society. Some of the most significant conflicts...
by admin | Jun 20, 2017 | American
KORACH EYES ONLY FOR YOU They [Datan and Aviram] said, “We shall not go up! Is it a small thing that you have brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that you make yourself a prince over us? Furthermore, you did not bring us...
by admin | Jun 14, 2017 | American
Rabbi Moshe Lichtman is a respected author and scholar living in Beit Shemesh who has written extensively about the centrality of the Land of Israel. Each week we plan to include a selection from his Sefer “Eretz Yisrael in the Torah.” SLANDERING THE LAND We all know...
by admin | Jun 14, 2017 | American
Rabbi Kalmar is the rabbi of Anshe Sfard Kehilat Torah in Milwaukee, WI. The theme of the parsha of Shelach is the meraglim, the spies. God and Moshe send the spies out to check out the land of Israel. They go, they spy, and they return. They tell the people what...
