“It’s All Spiritual” By: Hadassah Kolchin, West Hempstead NCSY “And the children of Israel did all that Hashem commanded Moshe, that is the way they encamped according to their...
The parsha opens with the census of the Jewish people. Moshe is told, “Countthe Jewish people, according to their families.” (1:2) However, the exact phrase used is, literally, “Se’u...
In the first Pasuk of Bemidbar it says “And Hashem spoke to Moshe in the Sinai desert, in the Mishkan, on the first day of the second month (Iyar),...
“Look For the Positive” In Parshat Beha’alotcha, it says the following: “The people took to seeking complaints, it was evil in the eyes of G-d (Bemidbar 11:1). Rashi says...
In this week’s parsha, Hashem sends Moshe to tell the Jews they will be freed. When they didn’t listen to him, Moshe’s stick turned into a snake by being...
Parashat Toldot: Rivkah is barren and she and Yitzchak pray for a child G-d answers Yitzchak’s prayers and Rivkah conceives Rivkah gives birth to twins, Yaakov and Eisav Eisav...
This week’s parsha has an interesting story that can be seen as a clear parallel to the world around us today. There is a trade between Esav and Yaakov...
Toward the end of this parsha we witness the death of our matriarch, Rachel, while giving birth to Binyamin. She was buried by the road in Beit Lechem. Why...
In this week’s parsha, the Torah forbids eating a certain ligament called the gid hanasheh. This seems extraneous, since the Gemara tells us that the ligament is tasteless and...
Vayeishev: Yaakov settles in the land of his father, in Canaan Yosef would bring evil reports about his brothers to his their father Yaakov shows favoritism to Yosef and...
