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  • Bamidbar – Letter of the Law

    Bamidbar – Letter of the Law
    2025/05/29
    Long strings of numbers don’t typically make for riveting radio or podcasts. Many of us feel our eyes glaze over when we read seemingly meaningless batches of numbers and a series of calculations. To the untrained eye, our Parsha – with its censuses, depiction of encampment layouts, and delineation of Levite responsibilities in the transportation […]
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    58 分
  • Bamidbar – Common Census (5783)

    Bamidbar – Common Census (5783)
    2025/05/27
    The United States Constitution mandates that a nationwide census is conducted every decade. Other nations also conduct censuses. Censuses are common. Our parsha begins with a nation-wide census, the third census since the Exodus. But this census was highly uncommon. It was conducted completely differently than the way that any other census is done. When […]
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    59 分
  • Parshas Bamidbar (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Bamidbar (Rebroadcast)
    2025/05/25
    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 – conducted by Moses, Aaron, and the most distinguished leaders of said tribes. Subsequently, we read about the banners of the tribes and their assigned encampments, the transference of […]
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    57 分
  • Behar/Bechukosai – Tilling and Toiling

    Behar/Bechukosai – Tilling and Toiling
    2025/05/22
    The laws of the Torah – all 613 of them – were conveyed by God to Moshe at Mount Sinai. This is explicitly conveyed regarding the first Mitzvah featured in the first of our double Parsha, the Mitzvah of shemitah, to allow the land to lie fallow each 7th year. When we examine the subject […]
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    55 分
  • Behar Bechukosai – Hostage Letter (5783)

    Behar Bechukosai – Hostage Letter (5783)
    2025/05/20
    Our Parsha contains some of the most difficult portions in the Torah, the Admonition. Our nation is told of the consequences of failing to adhere to the rules of God. The consequences are fierce and harsh. When this section is read in the synagogue, it is done quickly and in an undertone to prevent the […]
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    1 時間 2 分
  • Parshas Behar & Bechukosai (Rebroadcast)

    Parshas Behar & Bechukosai (Rebroadcast)
    2025/05/18
    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 series of laws to the Jewish people. The first is the mitzvah of Shemittah, the prohibition of engaging in any agricultural work every seven years. In two chapters in the Torah (Leviticus […]
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    1 時間 38 分
  • Emor – Lopside Down

    Emor – Lopside Down
    2025/05/15
    Passover marks the Exodus from Egypt. But leaving Egypt was only the beginning of the radical transformation that the Almighty brought about. 50 days after the Exodus, the nation coalesced around Mount Sinai and experienced theophany – national prophecy, national Revelation – at the mountain. The whole nation heard the word of God and lived. […]
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    1 時間 1 分
  • Emor – Snowball’s Chance in Heaven (5783)

    Emor – Snowball’s Chance in Heaven (5783)
    2025/05/13
    The story of the first person to ever be executed in a Jewish court of law is featured at the end of this week’s Parsha. An unnamed man, the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man, blasphemed and was executed. When we ponder the story we discover all sorts of interesting tidbits. The […]
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    57 分