By Rabbi David Cohen: In Bilaam’s dialogue with Hashem, he related that Balak, king of Moav, had petitioned him to curse the Jewish people. The word Bilaam used for curse is kavah, imprecate, which is a stronger, more emphatic, tone of curse. Rashi observes that kavah is stronger than arah, […]
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By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: In this week’s Parsha, the passuk says “This is the Torah, a man who dies in a tent.” The Gemara in Brachot quotes Rish Lakish who expounds this passuk to mean the words of Torah are not retained except by one who “kills” himself over the […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari Shalom, in this week’s parasha, we encounter yet again the complex episode of the spies. They returned from the mission to spy on the land of Yisrael with complaints of the superiority of the enemy and how it would be impossible to conquer the land. What […]
By Rabbi David Cohen: “Va’yehi binsoa haAron” Ramban cites a Midrash which takes a dim view of Klal Yisrael’s first journey away from Har Sinai. The Midrash states that the nation left the mountain, K’tinok ha’boreiach mi’bet ha’sefer, “Like a child running away from school,” happy to leave that holy […]
By Rabbi David Cohen The land will give its fruit and you will eat your fill… if you will say: “What will we eat in the seventh year?” I will ordain my blessing. (25:19, 20, 21) Sforno distinguishes between the baal bitachon, one who trusts in Hashem, who does not […]