The Ending Of The Daily Sacrifices

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אֶת-הַכֶּ֥בֶשׂ אֶחָ֖ד תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה בַבֹּ֑קֶר וְאֵת֙ הַכֶּ֣בֶשׂ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה בֵּ֥ין הָֽעַרְבָּֽיִם The rabbis mentioned 5 tragic events that happened on the 17th of Tamuz.  One...

SHELACH LEKHA: Defeatism and the Jews

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IN THE DESERT The Jewish people were in the desert, just a few days from reaching the Promised Land. God instructed Moses to send twelve...

I ❤️ ISRAEL: Israel’s Treasures Under The Sea

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One of the most critical lessons conveyed by the Parasha of the MERAGELIM (spies or explorers) is to learn to identify and communicate the...

CHUQAT: The First New Israeli Army

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At some unspecified point in this week’s Parasha, Chuqat, the biblical text makes a leap in time, transporting us from the second year after...

I ❤️ ISRAEL: The Divine Presence, back in the Israeli Army

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THE FIRST ISRAELI ARMY Three thousand five hundred years ago, the first Israeli army was formed in the Sinai desert. It consisted of 603,550 soldiers...

Summary of Parashat Korach

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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? 

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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

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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 ?

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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

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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...