Parshat Nasso – The Test of the Bitter Water
On morality and chastity
Category: PARSHAH
Parshat Bamidbar – The Unique Status of the Levites
By Avner Friedmann In this Parsha HaShem commands Moshe and Aaron to take a tribal census of all males between the ages of twenty and sixty, the eligible age for military service. But...
Parshat Bechukotai – Curses and Blessing
By Rabbi Dovid Markel This week’s parsha, Parshat Bechokotai, deals with the rewards and punishments that result upon one following or transgressing G-d’s will. The story is told (Hayom Yom, 17 Elul) of...
Parshat Bechukosai – I Will Make the Land Desolate
An interesting prediction embedded in the curses of this week’s parsha.
Pashas Bechukosai – Physical Blessing
The physical blessings expressed in the Parasha.
Parshas Behar – I Will Ordain My Blessing for You
What Sh’mita teaches us about trusting in G-d.
Parshas Emor – A Lesson in Speaking
Rabbi Dovid Markel This week’s Parshas Emor opens with the words, “And the Lord said to Moshe: Speak to the kohanim, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: Let none [of you]...
Parshas Behar – Shabbos: A Taste of the World to Come
By Avner Friedmann Our Parsha states[1]: “For six days labor may be done and the seventh day is a day of complete rest, a holy convocation, you shall not do any work: it...
Parshas Shemini – Plenty and Eight
By Shalom Olensky This week in the Torah: On the eighth day of the Sanctuary’s dedication, the Divine Presence was revealed, and dwelled, therein. A Jewish Tradition: “A year in which “The Eighth”...
Parshas Tazria – Birth and Leprosy
By Shalom Olensky This week in the Torah: First, the laws of the spiritual impurity which caused leprosy in Biblical times. Second, the laws of purifying the leper, freeing him from the affliction...
