Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Reeh HOWEVER, THERE WILL NOT BE AMONG YOU ANY NEEDY PERSON, FOR GOD WILL BLESS, YES, BLESS YOU IN THE LAND THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU AS AN INHERITANCE, TO POSSESS. WHEN THERE WILL BE AMONG YOU A NEEDY PERSON FROM ANY ONE OF YOUR BROTHERS, WITHIN ONE OF YOUR GATES IN THE LAND THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU, YOU ARE NOT TO TOUGHEN YOUR HEART, YOU ARE NOT TO...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Ekev FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD, HE IS THE GOD OF GODS AND THE LORD OF LORDS, THE GOD GREAT, POWERFUL, AND AWE-INSPIRING, HE WHO LIFTS UP NO FACE IN FAVOR AND TAKES NO BRIBE, PROVIDING JUSTICE FOR ORPHAN AND WIDOW, LOVING THE SOJOURNER, BY GIVING HIM FOOD AND CLOTHING. SO ARE YOU TO LOVE THE SOJOURNER, FOR STRANGERS WERE YOU IN THE LAND OF EGYPT. (Devarim 10:18) "So are you to love...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Vaetchanan THEN MOSHE SET APART THREE TOWNS IN THE COUNTRY ACROSS THE JORDAN, TOWARD THE RISING OF THE SUN, FOR FLEEING TO BY THE ACCIDENTAL MURDERER WHO MURDERS HIS NEIGHBOR WITH NO FORETHOUGHT, WHERE HE DID NOT BEAR HATRED TOWARD HIM FROM YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE, AND SO CAN FLEE TO ONE OF THESE TOWNS AND STAY ALIVE. (Devarim 4:41-42) Even One Accused Of Murder Is Entitled To A Decent Attitude And A...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Devarim HOW CAN I BEAR UNAIDED THE TROUBLE OF YOU, AND THE BURDEN, AND THE BICKERING! (Devarim 1:12) "The Lord God called to the human and said to him: 'Ayeka' (Bereishit 3:9) – Eicha , Eicha, Eicha and "Ayeka" ("Ayeka" (where are you) and "eicha" ('alas' and 'how') share the same spelling.) Said Rabbi Abahu in the name of Rabbi Chanina: It is written (Hoshea 6), "But they, to a man,...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Matot-Mas'ey FOR THE WESTERN BOUNDARY YOU SHALL HAVE THE COAST OF THE GREAT SEA; THAT SHALL SERVE AS YOUR WESTERN BOUNDARY. (Bemidbar 34:6) Expansion of Boundaries: Chalutziut or Concern for Possessions Among the Sons of Gad and the Sons of Reuven were many wealthy people, and they possessed much livestock and they loved their possessions, and therefore they settled outside the land, and they separated themselves from their brothers for the sake of the...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Pinchas COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND SAY TO THEM: OF MY NEAR-OFFERING, MY FOOD, AS MY FIRE-OFFERINGS, MY SOOTHING SAVOR, YOU ARE TO BE IN CHARGE, BRING IT NEAR TO ME AT ITS APPOINTED TIME. AND YOU ARE TO SAY TO THEM: THIS IS THE FIRE-OFFERING THAT YOU ARE TO BRING NEAR TO GOD: LAMBS A YEAR IN AGE, WHOLLY SOUND, TWO PER DAY, AS A REGULAR OFFERING UP. THE ONE LAMB YOU ARE...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Balak WHEN THE ASS NOW SAW THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, SHE LAY DOWN UNDER BIL'AM; AND BIL'AM WAS FURIOUS AND BEAT THE ASS WITH HIS STICK. THEN THE LORD OPENED THE ASS'S MOUTH, AND SHE SAID TO BIL'AM, "WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU THAT YOU HAVE BEATEN ME THESE THREE TIMES?" BIL'AM SAID TO THE ASS, "YOU HAVE MADE A MOCKERY OF ME! HAD I A SWORD WITH ME, I'D KILL YOU." THE...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Chukkat NOW THEY CAME, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, TO THE WILDERNESS OF TZIN, IN THE FIRST NEW-MOON. THE PEOPLE STAYED IN KADESH. MIRIAM DIED THERE, AND SHE WAS BURIED THERE. NOW THERE WAS NO WATER FOR THE COMMUNITY, SO THEY ASSEMBLED AGAINST MOSHE AND AGAINST AHARON. (Bemidbar 20:102) "Miriam died there, and she was buried there. Now there was no water for the community" – The lack of water was punishment...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Korach AHARON TOOK IT, AS MOSHE HAD SPOKEN, AND HE RAN TO THE MIDST OF THE ASSEMBLY: AND HERE, THE PLAGUE HAD BEGUN AMONG THE PEOPLE! SO HE PUT THE SMOKING INCENSE IN IT, AND EFFECTED APPEASEMENT OF THE PEOPLE; NOW HE STOOD BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, AND THE PLAGUE WAS HELD BACK (Bemidbar 17:12-13) The Incense As "A Weapon" In The Hands of Aharon – Lover and Pursuer of Peace –...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Shelach THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY LIFTED UP AND LET OUT THEIR VOICE, AND THE PEOPLE WEPT ON THAT NIGHT. AND THEY GRUMBLED AGAINST MOSHE AND AGAINST AHARON, ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THEY SAID TO THEM, THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY: WOULD THAT WE HAD DIED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, OR IN THIS WILDERNESS, WOULD THAT WE HAD DIED! NOW WHY IS GOD BRINGING US TO THIS LAND, TO FALL BY THE SWORD? OUR WIVES AND OUR...