In Korach | Exposing the Inner Rebellion Part Two, we pick up where we left off in the previous lesson of Korach | Exposing the Inner Rebellion. In this lesson we expand further on...

In Korach | Exposing the inner rebellion, we examine the text of Number 16-17 to find the detailed reasons for Korach’s rebellion against Moshe. In the light of the text we explore the...

The heart and the eyes are scouts for the body and are the agents leading it to transgress. The eyes see and the heart desires, and the body commits the transgressions.” Later Rashi cites...

An overview of the Shelach Haftorah. “Despite the temptation to see our Haftorah as merely a story of spies who contrast with the ones in the Torah reading by doing their job correctly and...

In Shelach part two we will discuss the blessings and challenges of free choice. HaShem has a remedy for making the right choice.  Tzitztis is the first mitzvah to which a young boy is introduced...

The Parshat Shelach part one begins with G-d telling Moses to send men who “will SPY OUT the Land of Canaan which I am giving to the Children of Israel”. The Parshat ends...

The code of Divine Law that we now know as the ‘Seven Commandments of the Descendants of Noah’, has been with mankind since the creation of the first man, Adam. “Six precepts were commanded...

We follow Israel for the first year in the wilderness. With miracles, wonders and the Divine presence resting over them, they are now complaining and looking back on Egypt as if it were a...

In Naso Part Two discover the connection of each seemingly unrelated text to a beautiful understanding of drawing down the Divine presence into this world. As the parashah includes the story of the consecration...

Naso or Nasso (נָשֹׂא — Hebrew for “lift up,” the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 35th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה,parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 4:21–7:89. Naso has the...