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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 c... 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

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 Num... read more

A Second Chance

And all the blessings which I gave you with which to bless My children – those, too, will never be annulled” (Bamidbar Rabbah 15:6 and ... month (Numbers 1:1), so this episode, which happened in the f... read more

On Leadership: 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 an... read more

Moses: A Neglectful Parent?

The first relevant rabbinic comment addresses a curious sequence of verses in the third chapter of the book of Bamidbar (Numbers). There, in the midst of a general genealogical survey of Israel, we co... 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, Ba... read more

Shlach (Israel): The beginning of the end

The Midrash (Bamidbar Rabbah ... Me seventy men’ (Numbers 11:16); and when He saw the spies who were later going to sin, He called them by Moshe’s name, saying ‘Send for yourself men’”. And yet again: ... read more

The First Born

Finally the last plague, the death of the first born, beats Pharaoh into submission ... nor shall be like it any more.'"(Exodus 11:4-6) Tradition tells us that this plague was the most severe. 2 The f... read more

Parshas Miketz

1 Earliest time for Tallis and Tefillin: 6:24 a.m. NYC E.S.T. Sunrise ... by many congregations and Yeshivos for our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael: Chapter 83, 130, 142. read more