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Parashat: Sh’lach Torah Reading: Numbers 13:1–15:41 “There shall be one law for you and for the resident stranger; it shall be a law for all time throughout the ages. You and the stranger shall be alike before the Eternal. The same ritual and the same rule shall apply to you and to the stranger who Continue Reading »
Parashat: Beha’alotcha Torah Reading: Numbers 8:1–12:16 “Then the Eternal spoke to Moses: ‘Gather for Me seventy of Israel’s elders… and I will come down and speak with you there; and I will draw upon the spirit that is upon you and put it upon them; they shall share the burden of [the leadership of] the Continue Reading »
Parashat: Nasso Torah Reading: Numbers 4:21–7:89 “May God look kindly upon you and treat you graciously.” — Numbers 6:25 Parashat Nasso is the longest Torah portion that we have — one in which there is a lot of reiteration, which can seem repetitive and redundant (wink!) — especially when you’ve managed to read about someone Continue Reading »
Parashat: Shavuot Torah Reading: Deuteronomy 14:22–16:17 If, however, there is a needy person among you…do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kin. Rather, you must open your hand and lend whatever is sufficient to meet the need…For there will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is Continue Reading »
Parahsat: Bamidbar Torah Reading: Numbers 1:1–4:20 “Take a census of the whole Israelite company by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names, every male, head by head”. — Numbers 1:2 While in Hebrew the book is called “B’midbar” — in the wilderness — the English name of numbers describes the beginning of the Continue Reading »
Parashat: Behar-Bechukotai Torah Reading: Leviticus 25:1–27:34 “These are the commandments that the Eternal gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai” — Leviticus 27:34 This last line of Leviticus sums up the entire book, a fitting conclusion to a book that was almost entirely about the giving of law, with only two brief narrative Continue Reading »
