Bamidbar – Recruiting an Army
The book of Bamidbar opens with instructions to count the households of Israel. Specifically the males over the age of 20 were counted, “all who go out to serve in the army in Israel”...
Monthly Archive: May 2017
Behar, Bechukotai – Unlimited Nature of Israel
Parshat Bechukotai begins by stating that when the Torah is studies and observed an abundance of blessing results. “If in my statutes you will walk and my commandments you observe… …and five of you...
Acharei Mot/Kedoshim – Being Prepared
The great Rabbi Kook, first Chief Rabbi of the Jewish settlement in Israel, once declared that “The old will be renewed and the new will become old.” Like most of Rabbi Kook’s writings, this...
Tazria / Metzora – Gift and Responsibility of Speech
The creation of the human is described in Genesis. “And the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the earth, and He blew into his nostril a soul of life, and man...