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Bamidbar - Numbers - Chapter 3

Tanchuma , Bamidbar 16] מבן חדש ומעלה ... those counted were the Libnite family and Shim’eite family; their numbers were so many and so many. לגרשון משפחת הלבני: כלומר לגרשון היו הפקודים משפחת ... read more

Shouldn't We Try God's Peace Plan?

God tells us in Chapter 26, verses 3 through 6, that "If you follow My decrees and observe My commandments", then God "will provide peace in the land, and you will lie down with none to frighten you." ... read more

Is It Good for the Jews and Why Does the NYT Purport to Be the Arbiter?

[i] Numbers, Chapter 16. [ii] Numbers 16:23-33. [iii] Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot, Siman 10 and Midrash Tanchuma, Vayera, Siman 6. [iv] See, for example ... Midrash Rabbah, Bamidbar 18:12. [xii] In his ... read more

Parashat BaMidbar: Strength in the wilderness

This week’s parasha begins the book we call Numbers in English, clearly a reference to the census taken of the Israelites in the first chapter. In Hebrew, however, the book is called BaMidbar (“in ... ... read more

Bamidbar - Numbers - Chapter 6

2Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: A man or woman who sets himself apart by making a nazirite vow to abstain for the sake of the Lord. בדַּבֵּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל ... read more

Gad — The Tribe of the Nouveau Riche

[5] Bamidbar 32:17. [6] See Makkot 9b–10a ... was adapted by Harry Glazer from the chapter, Reuven and Gad – the Two Lost Tribes, in Rabbi Francis Nataf’s book – Redeeming Relevance in the Book of ... read more

A mitzvah you could do in your sleep

Now the spies whom Moshe despatched to spy out the Land of Israel certainly knew all this: “They were all men – they were leaders of the Children of Israel” (Numbers 13:3 ... and according to Moshe” ... read more

Avoiding the Politics of Envy

It is one of the primary themes of the book of Bamidbar. Of whom were the Israelites jealous ... the individual who vows to set himself apart for the Lord (Numbers 6:2). He was not to drink wine or ... read more

Half of Menashe

As the Book of Bamidbar ... at the numbers involved, it becomes clear that the term "half the tribe of Menashe" is imprecise: Of eight families of Menashe, two joined Reuven and Gad in Transjordan ... read more

The Art of Complaining: Avoid Mindless Protests and the Futility of Aimless Resistance

[iii] Exodus 6:5 and see Rashi and Sforno commentaries thereon. [iv] Numbers, Chapters 11 and 12. [v] Numbers 11:1. [vi] Ibid and see Rashi and Malbim commentaries on the verse, as well as, Sifrei, ... read more

Parshiot Bamidbar and Naso: Chosen Child

This immediately brings to mind the excruciatingly sad episode of “pilegesh b’givah” (the concubine in the town of Geva, Shoftim [Judges] 21:6) where the ... However, when the numbers came in after ... read more

Leadership and Loyalty

22:6). The rabbinic literature does not call this into question ... Yet the ultimate verdict on Bilaam is negative. In chapter 25, we read of the ironic sequel to the episode of the curses/blessings. ... read more