There is a widespread misconception that the Jewish people is a race. In the Torah reading of Beha’alotcha, in the Book of Numbers (12, 1), Moses, in the plain meaning…
In the Torah reading of Nasso, there are laws relating to a Nazarite (Numbers 6, 1-21). The Biblical Nazarite is one who takes a vow of abstinence in order to…
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…
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…
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”…
Chapter 19 of the Book of Leviticus, the Holiness Chapter, stands out as one of the most important chapters in the Hebrew Bible. The chapter begins with a command addressed…
Chapter 19 of the Book of Leviticus, the Holiness Chapter, stands out as one of the most important chapters in the Hebrew Bible. The chapter begins with a command addressed…
Strikingly, and contrary to what is widely and mistakenly believed, homosexuality is not seen as a sin, and is not discussed at all, in the Hebrew Bible. The Biblical prohibition…
The Torah readings of Tazria and Metzora are often read together in the Synagogue - and, a main subject of both Torah readings is leprosy although the Hebrew term (צרעת)…
In order to understand what it means in the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses) and the Hebrew Bible to walk in the ways of God (Deuteronomy 10, 12), we…