Summary of Parashat Korach
Korach, the cousin of Moshe Rabbenu, leads a rebellion against Moshe and Aaron alongside members of the tribe of Reuben: Dathan, Abiram, and On,...
CHUQAT: The Whip Or The Word?
40 years have passed between last week's Parasha and this week's Parasha, Chuqat. We are right now at the last moments of the journey...
CHUQAT: Jews and the Tyrannosaurus Rex
וַיְשַׁלַּח ה’ בָּעָם אֵת הַנְּחָשִׁים הַשְּׂרָפִים
BIBLICAL SOPHISTICATION
Hebrew is an extremely sophisticated language. Almost all nouns have a 3-letter "root", which with the...
איך אומרים ציונית בעברית ?
ציונות = חזרתם של העם היהודי לארץ ישראל להקים שם מדינה יהודית.
בעוד שהמונח "ציונות" הוטבע על ידי נתן בירנבאום בשנת 1890, הרב יהודה ביבאס...
CHUQAT: A Red Heifer and our children, by Rabbanit Coty Bittón
Killing a red heifer, burn it and using its ashes to purify ourselves when being in contact with a dead body? It doesn't make...
Summary of Shelach Lekha
THE PLAN
With Divine consent, Moses sends spies on a reconnaissance mission into the land of Canaan in preparation for the Israelites' invasion and conquest...
SHELACH LEKHA: Fear of Freedom
THE MISSION
The children of Israel are in the desert, just weeks away from arriving in the Promised Land. To ensure the success of their...
BEHA’ALOTEKHA: Moses, the man, and the leader
Who was the most humble person who ever lived on the face of the earth? The answer is in Bamidbar (Numbers) 12: 3.
In antiquity,...
Shabuot, And A Ketuba Written In Gaza
In most Sephardic congregations, before the Tora is read on the first day of Shabu'ot, we recite a very special “marriage certificate or Ketuba”...
God, in the first person
On Shabuot, we received the Tora. It all began with the Ten Commandments.
"I, HaShem, am your God, the one who rescued you from the...
