Bamidbar (Numbers 1, 1 – 4, 20) – from the wilderness to the land of Israel
The name of the Book of Numbers in Hebrew is not Numbers but Bamidbar - also Bamidbar is the name of the first Torah reading of the Book of Bamidbar…
1 Behar (Leviticus 25, 1 – 26, 2) – the Jubilee year
The Torah reading of Behar opens with the laws of the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee (יובל). The Sabbatical year is every seventh year, and is to be “a Sabbath…
Emor (Leviticus 21, 1 – 24, 23) – the Jewish calendar
Chapter 23 of the Book of Leviticus stands out in the Hebrew Bible in importance - and, is known in the Jewish tradition as “the order of the appointed times”…