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    A Puzzling Law, Seen in Context A D’var Torah for Naso by Rabbi Len Levin “I will not punish their daughters for loose behavior, Nor their daughters-in-law for infidelity, For they themselves turn aside with whores And sacrifice with prostitutes” (Hosea 4:14). Sometimes the Torah speaks to us as a timeless document, whose proclamations (“love Read More >

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    By Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman The wilderness travels in the book of Bemidbar begin with the description of the Israelite's camp, its orientation to the four directions: the Tabernacle at the center and the identifying banners of the twelve tribes flying at the front of each tribal camp. This is a traveling camp. It will dismantle Read More >

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    by Cantor Sandy Horowitz יְבָרֶכְךָ יְיָ וְיִשְׁמְרֶֽךָ. יָאֵר יְיָ פָּנָיו אֵלֶֽיךָ וִיחֻנֶּֽךָּ. יִשָּׂא יְיָ פָּנָיו אֵלֶֽיךָ וְיָשֵׂם לְךָ שָׁלוֹם. Numbers 6:24-26 The Ohel David Synagogue in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), home to a small group of Baghdadi Jews, was once visited by Nathan Katz, as he relates in his book Who Are the Jews of India?  When Read More >

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    by Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky This week’s parashah contains one of the most detailed descriptions of a Biblical ritual in the entire Torah. Numbers 5:11-31 contains a description of the Sotah ritual. When a husband suspected his wife of being unfaithful she was subjected to an ordeal that would prove either her innocence or guilt. In Read More >

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    Bemidbar Hazan Marcia Lane Where Am I? (or "Stuck in the Middle Again!") The fourth book of the Torah, Bemidbar, begins with one of those statements that sounds, at least to me, as if it was being narrated by Charlton Heston. "The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on Read More >

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    A first or even a second reading of the text of Parashat Tetzaveh doesn’t begin to reveal the nuances, the implications, the messages of what might otherwise sound like elaborate but formulaic instructions for how to light the lights and for how to dress the priests. Instead, we can learn so much from the choice of words and from the message behind the words which inform our lives to the present day. Reflecting on God’s instructions to us as we struggled to become a nation was a learning curve - then and now.