Anyone listening to this week’s reading, Naso, knows that there is a lot of repetition. The twelve nesi’im each bring their respective offering for the dedication of the altar. Aside …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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6/12/19
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On September 7, 2007, Israel bombed a compound of buildings in eastern Syria, which, as it later reported, was a nuclear reactor being built with the assistance of North Korea. In a 2012 article …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/12/19
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Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why this book is known in English as Numbers. But we note what appears to be a contradiction. On the one hand, Rashi says that the acts of …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
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6/5/19
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My first exposure to the study of the Bible was in the Yiddish language. We spoke only English at home, but almost all the teachers we had in the yeshiva I attended were Holocaust survivors who …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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6/5/19
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We were driving southeast in Lebanon, from Beirut back down towards Marjayoun, when the shelling started. Our Jeep driver was in a near panic. He was not part of our regular unit; he was a …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/5/19
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G-d tells Moshe, “I have separated the Levites from the [other] Israelites so that they may take the place of all the firstborn (who initiate the womb) among the Israelites, and the Levites …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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6/5/19
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As the Torah attests, Yaakov Avinu’s emigration from the Land of Israel to Egypt was the collective action of a family — Yaakov, each of his sons, and their households, for a total of …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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6/5/19
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I am the type of person who has always believed that the only way to learn about something important is to buy a book about it. For example, I have been fortunate to have traveled widely and to …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/30/19
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The first three words of our parasha, Bechuchotai, present a significant interpretative challenge. The phrase, “Im bechuchotai teleichu” could readily be translated, “if you …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/30/19
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The famous 19th century blood libel in Russia that came to be known as the Beilis Trial was much more than the trial of just one man. Judaism as a whole stood accused, and its faithful defenders …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/30/19
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