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Chukas & Balak – Methods of Transformation
Season 1
In the first of this week’s double parsha, we read about the death of two giants: Miriam and Aaron, Moshe’s older sister and brother, pass away. Our …
2 years, 8 months ago
Balak – Some Men Are From Mars (5781)
Season 1
Our parsha contains an attempted genocide. Bilaam, the prophet of the idolaters, a man of prodigious ability an skill, dedicates himself with tenacit…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chukas – Inglorious Origins (5781)
Season 1
The red cow is the Torah’s most mysterious mitzvah. We are told to take a completely red cow and slaughter it, and burn it’s body together with a con…
2 years, 8 months ago
Parshas Chukas & Balak (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
In Parshas Chukas, we read about a highly unusual mitzvah: The Red Heifer, when an entirely red cow is burned together with a motley concoction of in…
2 years, 8 months ago
Korach – Korach’s Insatiability
Season 1
Korach was immensely talented. He was enormously rich, he was clever, and he was devilishly persuasive. His rebellion, however, was doomed from the s…
2 years, 8 months ago
Korach – Demoted For Good (5781)
Season 1
Korach was a very talented man with a sterling pedigree. He was wise and clever and even had a degree of prophetic clairvoyance. Yet he blundered egr…
2 years, 8 months ago
Parshas Korach (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
In this week’s parsha, Moshe and Aaron’s first cousin, a man named Korach, launches a rebellion claiming that Moshe is guilty of nepotism in appointi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shelach – Despising Limitations
Season 1
The nation was on the cusp of entering the Land. After about a year at Sinai, the nation was ready to conquer Canaan. The invasion and war of conques…
2 years, 8 months ago
Shelach – Daydreams, Nightmares, and Reveries (5781)
Season 1
The final five verses of our Parsha contain the third paragraph of the Shema. In it, we are instructed to place tzitzis strings wrapped with a string…
2 years, 8 months ago
Parshas Shelach (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
The Jewish people were on the cusp of entering the Land of Canaan, and made a prudent, but ultimately tragic, decision: To send a contingent of scout…
2 years, 8 months ago