I heard a humorous tale from R’ Gavriel Friedman along these lines: Two people—Jo and Shmo were once walking and they saw an animal in

Bilam said, “May my soul die the death of the upright (‘yesharim’)” (23:10), to which Ramban explains that Bilaam was referring to Bnei Yisrael who

The paradox presented by the parah adumah is so mind-boggling, that even Shlomo Hamelech couldn’t fathom how it can be that its service makes the

Korach throws a rebellion, and of course, Datan and Aviram are right up there with him. As the parsha begins (16:1-2), “And Korach…and Datan and

The very end of last week’s parsha records the incident of Miriam speaking lashon hara about Moshe, and the very beginning of this week’s parsha

This week we read of “the Pesach Sheini people” who missed out on bringing the korban pesach at its due time since they were impure

After Moshe constructs the Tabernacle, the Ramban explains that Hashem commands that the impure should be sent out of the camp in order that the

After a whole slew of harsh punishments delineated in the “tochacha,” the pasuk finally says that we admitted our wrongdoings—“And they will confess their iniquity…”

“If your brother becomes impoverished and his hand falters beside you, you shall support him…” (25:35). The midrash (Vayikra Rabbah 34:1) quotes the pasuk in

Toward the end of this week’s parsha we read about the incident with the “mekalel,” the person who blasphemed Hashem and whose punishment was his

Can one really love another Jew to the same extent as one loves oneself? While at first glance the famous words of “v’ahavta l’rei’acha kamocha”