by Bet Alef Administrator | Jun 23, 2023 | Torah Reflections
Korach Numbers 16:1 – 18:32 At the end of last week’s parashah, Sh’lach L’cha, the Israelites were at the edge of the Promised Land. Twelve tribal leaders went to scope out the land and when they returned they advised, ten against two, that the tribes should...
by Bet Alef Administrator | Jun 16, 2023 | Torah Reflections
Sh’lach L’cha Numbers 13:1 – 15:41 For forty days and forty nights the scouts sent by Moses gathered information and sampled the local fruits in the Promised Land. Upon their return, Caleb and Joshua encouraged the people to enter and conquer the...
by Bet Alef Administrator | Jun 9, 2023 | Torah Reflections
B’haalot’cha Numbers 8:1 – 12:16 It seems like every time we turn the page in the biblical story of our people, they are complaining about their situation in the wilderness. This time it’s the monotony of the same food, day in and day out, that has...
by Bet Alef Administrator | Jun 1, 2023 | Torah Reflections
Nasso Numbers 4:21 – 7:89 In the middle of Parashat Naso we happen upon one of the central blessings of our tradition: The Eternal spoke to Moses: Speak to Aaron and to his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of Israel. Say to them: The Eternal One blesses...
by Bet Alef Administrator | May 19, 2023 | Torah Reflections
B’midbar Numbers 1:1 – 4:20 Having meditated throughout the Book of Leviticus on the mitzvot we must perform to ensure that the Holy One dwells among us, we now resume the story of our ancestors in the ancient wilderness, starting where we left off at the...
by Bet Alef Administrator | May 12, 2023 | Torah Reflections
B’har – B’chukotai Leviticus 25:1 – 27:34 On July 8, 1776, the Liberty Bell was rung in Philadelphia to mark the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants...
