Jews don’t count people. Instead the Torah creates a system of tabulating the population without actually counting human beings. This indirect counting scheme is delineated
When minyanim restarted again, everyone was so excited. Finally, we’d be back together, charged up to daven with true intensity! And yet…I received a phone
Parshat Naso describes the option to become a nazir, prohibiting oneself from drinking wine (and even eating grapes!), cutting one’s hair and participating in the
In many shuls on Shavuot night, there is a panel of speakers arranged for every hour or so until it comes time for Shacharit. Imagine
In this week’s parsha of Naso we read about the nazir. The nazir was an ascetic who denied himself some of the pleasures of life
In the beginning of Parshat Bamidbar (1:2), Hashem commands Moshe to take a census of Bnei Yisrael. The Torah records the exact number counted, in
A midrash states that at Har Sinai Bnei Yisrael saw hosts of angels organized in ranks with banners. The midrash goes on to say that
The brand-new All Parsha app, from the creators of the immensely popular All Daf, is now available for free download and is poised to take
This past week we celebrated Yom Yerushalayim, marking the 54th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification. Yom Yerushalayim usually falls out before or after we read Parshat
When Maya and her siblings got home from school on Friday, they saw that a great rabbi had come to visit from Israel. They were
It has been a week of tears and of numbness. Every time I read the list of 45 I become dizzy and faint, wincing in
Levi was a student in Yeshiva Kol Torah in Eretz Yisrael. Alas, Levi made some bad choices, adopted some regrettable behaviors, and was duly warned.
