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Nasso – Princely Pendulum
Season 1
The Princes of the Tribes make several notable contributions at the inauguration of the Tabernacle: They contribute 12 oxen and 6 covered wagons to a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Parshas Nasso (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
In the longest parsha in the Torah by verses, we continue to read about the Levite families and their responsibilities, we learn about the three tie…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bamidbar – Flag-Bearers
Season 1
At first glance, Parshas Bamidbar seems like a snoozefest: it’s very technical, counting the people, assigning the tribes to their encampments, count…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ruth: The Enduring Lesson of Shavuos
Season 1
The Book of Ruth – and its eponymous heroine – are true enigmas. The Book contains no new laws and its story, while inspirational and poignant, bear…
4 years, 9 months ago
Parshas Bamidbar (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
We kickstart the Book of Numbers with a census of the twelve tribes of Israel – not including the tribe of Levi who is counted independently – condu…
4 years, 9 months ago
Behar/Bechukosai – Divine Nudge
Season 1
This past week our nation underwent an unprecedented calamity. At our people’s largest annual festival, the celebration of Lag ba’Omer in Meron, a cr…
4 years, 9 months ago
Parshas Behar & Bechukosai (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
This week’s double-Parsha closes out the Book of Leviticus. Parshas Behar begins at Mount Sinai, where the Almighty instructed Moshe to convey a ser…
4 years, 10 months ago
Emor – Sense of Belonging
Season 1
Our parsha contains the first recorded instance of capital punishment in Jewish history. A disgruntled man, the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyp…
4 years, 10 months ago
Parshas Emor (Rebroadcast)
Season 1
Parshas Emor contains a staggering 56 mitzvos, nearly all of them relating to either to the Kohanim, the priests, or to the Festivals, and the parsh…
4 years, 10 months ago
Acharei Mos/Kedoshim – Challenge Accepted
Season 1
Our Nation has always had bad neighbors. The Midrash in our Parsha states that the Egyptians and the Canaanites, both nations that our people lived i…
4 years, 10 months ago