Every chapter, verse, word, and even letter in the Five Books of Moses is filled with meaning and timeless life lessons. Jews read this sacred text from a parchment Torah scroll in synagogue each year, with a different section (parsha) allocated to each week. Year after year we read the same parshas, always finding deeper meanings and new relevance to our lives and the world around us.
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Balak Balak: May All Our Enemies Become Our Advocates!
Did Balaam really believe he could out-negotiate God?
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Chukat Chukat: The Most Mysterious Law In The Torah
How can contact with the red heifer defile the ritually pure, while purifying the ritually impure? Table for Five: Chukat Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist This is the statute of the Torah which the Lord commanded, saying, Speak …
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Korach Korach: Am I Fighting For Justice Or Am I Lashing Out Like Korach?
Why did Korach challenge his cousins Moses and Aaron for the leadership?
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Shelach Shelach: Why Would We Yearn For A Place We Hated?
Were the Children of Israel thickheaded, ungrateful or something else?
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Behaalotecha Behaalotecha: The Song of the Levites
What is holiness, and do the Levites possess more of it?
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Nasso Nasso: A Torah Lesson in Personal Pronouns
The difference between He and They in making atonement.
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Shavuot Special Edition: A Lesson From Ruth
Sometimes it takes an outsider to solve inside problems.
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BeharBechukotai Behar-Behukotai: Let My Land Rest!
A law that could not have been written by humans.
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Emor Emor: A Mother Cow and Her Calf
A simple law that tells us a lot about God, Torah and ourselves.
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KedoshimAcharei Mot Acharei-Kedoshim: All Good Things Need Boundaries
The finest wine is no good without a bottle to contain it.
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MetzoraTazria Tazria-Metzora: When One’s Skin Became One’s Teacher
Leprosy in the Torah had nothing to do with the illness known as a leprosy today.