“Parshat Pinchas” by R. Yehoshua Shapira
Because he was zealous for his G-d Our Parsha opens with the wonderful blessings Pinchas received in the wake of his zealousness for G-d in the event with Zimri: “Behold I am giving him my covenant of peace and it will be for him and all his descendants after him, a...
“Parshat Balak” by Rabbi Shlomo Rosenfeld
Surprisingly, it is from the wicked antagonist in the parasha of Balak – Bilam – that we learn an important rule about life. The Babylonian Talmud in Makot says: “Heaven directs a person on the path he wants to go. First, it says ‘Do not go with them,” and then ‘Rise...
“Parshat Shelach” by Rabbi Alan Haber
When describing the sin of the spies, the Torah uses a somewhat unusual term: “Vayotziu dibat ha’aretz” (Numbers 13:32). While this is usually translated as “they spoke evil about the land” or “they slandered the land,” the exact meaning of the word “diba” is...Parshat Behaalotha: “Moses and the Menorah” By Rabbi Michael Aharonov
From the words of the sages about the Menorah we learn that this was one of Moses’s most difficult tasks, much harder than building the Tabernacle. The Midrash further tells us that Moses asked Hashem on Mt. Sinai to show him exactly how to fashion the Menorah but...