Ekev – For Your Safety and Comfort
“And now Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him and to serve the Lord...
Author: Yitzchak Mizrahi
Va’etchanan – New Age
A study was recently undertaken by Christian groups in the United States to understand the religious attitudes and beliefs of religiously affiliated Christian youth in the United States. The results of the study were...
Devarim – Sincerity
This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Chazon due to the first word of the Haftarah, the opening of the book of Isaiah. This is the final of the three Haftarot of destruction. The first...
Matot / Masei – Limiting Options
Previously we discussed the daughters of Tzelofechad, exposing the virtues that drove their demand for inheritance. At the very end of the book of Numbers the Torah revisits the story of these ladies, but...
Pinchas – Wonderwomen
In Parshat Pinchas we find a story about women. The five daughters of Tzelofechad approached Moses to petition him for their father’s portion in the Promised Land. The full Torah rules of inheritance had...
Balak – The Virtue of Self-Interest
The story of Balaam and Balak is one of the most enigmatic narratives in the Torah. Virtually every segment of the story has its own perplexities. The entirety of the story is beyond what...