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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

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

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

Acts of the Fathers

(Bamidbar ... conceive seed (Numbers 5:28). Then this woman [Sarah] who had entered the houses of Pharaoh and Avimelech and yet emerged undefiled -- surely it was but right that she should be remember... read more

Chol Hamo’ed Sukkos

6:18 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends: 7:16 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 7:48 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Weekly Reading: Chol Hamo’ed Sukkos (see below) Weekly Haftara: Chol Hamo’ed Sukkos (see below) D... 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

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

Friday the Rabbi Read Isaiah 53

The gentiles continue: 53:6-7 “We have all strayed like sheep ... Of all the missionary attempts to subvert this chapter and make believe it describes the boy from Nazareth, I’m yet to see a single in... read more

55 Graduate From Weber School

In offering a d’var Torah on the new week’s parshah, Bamidbar (Numbers), which highlights the census of the ... such as reading five pages of a textbook instead of a chapter and running for a certain ... read more