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וַאֲבָֽרְכָה֙ מְבָ֣רְכֶ֔יךָ וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ֖ אָאֹ֑ר I will bless those who bless you and will curse those...
Against the backdrop of an ongoing and increasingly violent war of terror being waged by the Haredi community against the State and the citizens of...
The purification ritual known as Parah Adumah, using the ashes of a red heifer, is considered the Torah’s greatest mystery. No explanation is given,...
In the past I have suggested that the episode of the meraglim, the spies whom Moshe sent at God’s behest to reconnoiter the Promised Land were being...
… תּוֹרָ֥ה אַחַ֛ת וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט אֶחָ֖ד יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֑ם וְלַגֵּ֖ר הַגָּ֥ר...
But first a sad joke: One of the many, many, many, many, indeed far too many little Hasidic rebbelech wanted to impress his congregation by proving...
I have long argued that the Mishkan, the Tent of Assembly, that was so aesthetically, rigorously and meticulously crafted in the desert was never...
Do they even bother to read Parshat Bamidbar in haredi yeshivot and synagogues? If so, do they pay attention to what is being read? The verse...
דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם כִּ֤י תָבֹ֙אוּ֙...
The other night I was invited to hear a presentation by MK Ohad Tal of Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party. The audience was comprised of...
The very word אמר (emor) for which this parsha is named, and which appears twice in the parsha, is unusual. The opening verse says...
Our parsha this week, Aharei Mot, אחרי מות opens with a reference to the deaths of Nadav and Avihu. This was the horrifying epsode during which...
In my recent notes on Parshat Vayikra I focused on the Torah’s radical distinction between one who brings a bullock as a voluntary whole burnt...
There is a mysterious word that appears but twice in the entire Torah, and both times in Vayikra (Leviticus)– once in Parshat Tzav and once in...
If yesterday’s two-week cease fire deal takes root it will spell the end of American economic and military dominance in the Middle East, possibly...
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃ And God told Moshe, say thus (i.e. repeat verbatim) צַ֤ו...
וַיִּקְרָ֖א אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהֹוָה֙ אֵלָ֔יו מֵאֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵ֖ד לֵאמֹֽר׃...
Is the Talmud destroying us today, the way the Beit Hamikdash destroyed us twice? The creation of the Mishkan/Tabernacle was meant to be a project in...
If we stop and think about it, the opening verses of Parshat Ki Tisa (Shemot/Exodus 30: 11-13) don’t quite add up. וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר...
וְאַתָּ֗ה תְּדַבֵּר֙ אֶל־כׇּל־חַכְמֵי־לֵ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִלֵּאתִ֖יו ר֣וּחַ חׇכְמָ֑ה...
וְעָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָֽׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם And they shall make Me a sanctuary and I will...
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