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Balak – Some Men Are From Mars
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…
4 years, 8 months ago
Parshas Balak (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
After the Jewish nation trounced the mighty kingdoms of Sichon and Og in last week’s parsha, the comparatively smaller and weaker kingdom of Moab res…
4 years, 8 months ago
Chukas – Inglorious Origins
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…
4 years, 8 months ago
Parshas Chukas (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
In this week’s parsha, we read about a highly unusual mitzvah: The Red Heifer, when an entirely red cow is burned together with a motley concoction o…
4 years, 8 months ago
Korach – Demoted For Good
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…
4 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 appoint…
4 years, 8 months ago
Shelach – Daydreams, Nightmares, and Reveries
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…
4 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 scou…
4 years, 9 months ago
Behaaloscha – Kindle Fire
Season 1
Aaron the High Priest held a critical leadership role in the nation. A partial list of his jobs: he offered sacrifices, he did the Yom Kippur service…
4 years, 9 months ago
Parshas Behaaloscha (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
The Jewish nation has been encamped at Mount Sinai for nearly a year; in this week’s parsha they finally depart from the Mountain of God, and sadly …
4 years, 9 months ago