Torah Talk

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 30th, 2021 Num. 15:39   That shall be your fringe; look at it and recall all the commandments of the Lord and observe them, so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in your lustful urge. But Ecclesiastes begs to differ. This week’s handout: 37 Shelach […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 23rd, 2021 Num. 11:1   The people took to, like, complaining [וַיְהִי הָעָם כְּמִתְאֹנְנִים] bitterly before the Lord. As if!  What does this verb really mean, and why were they “like” doing it? This week’s handout: 36 Beha’alotcha 5781 Learn Biblical Hebrew! Donate via Paypal! Click here for more links […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 16th, 2021 In Numbers 5, God tells Moses, 6 When a man or woman commits any wrong toward a fellow man, thus breaking faith with the Lord, and that person realizes his guilt, 7 he shall confess the wrong that he has done. He shall make restitution in the principal […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 9th, 2021 • Does Numbers connect to Leviticus … or to Exodus?   This week’s handout: 34 Bemidbar 5781 Learn Biblical Hebrew! Donate via Paypal! Click here for more links or to contact me • Scan this to donate via Venmo:

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 2nd, 2021 Lev. 25:23       But the land must not be sold beyond reclaim [לִצְמִתֻ֔ת], for the land is Mine. It’s a bis legomenon!!!  But what does it really mean, where did it come from, and how did it get into the Holiness Code? This week’s handout: […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of April 25th, 2021 Lev. 23:10    When you enter the land that I am giving to you and you reap its harvest, you shall bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.11 He shall elevate the sheaf before the Lord for acceptance in your behalf; the priest shall elevate […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of April 18th, 2021 Lev. 19:4   Do not turn to idols [אַל־תִּפְנוּ֙ אֶל־הָ֣אֱלִילִ֔ים] or make molten gods for yourselves: I the Lord am your God. But what exactly is an אֱלִיל? Click here for Mark Hamilton’s article “What Are Elilim?” Learn Biblical Hebrew! Donate via Paypal! Click here for more links or to […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of April 11th, 2021 Lev. 12:1   The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be unclean seven days; she shall be unclean as at the time of her menstrual infirmity.— 3 On the eighth day the flesh […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of April 4th, 2021 Lev. 11:9   These you may eat of all that live in water: anything in water, whether in the seas or in the streams, that has fins and scales—these you may eat. Okay, but … what are their names?  Why doesn’t the Bible have any names for […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of March 21st, 2021 Lev. 7:34  For I have taken the breast of elevation offering and the thigh of gift offering from the Israelites, from their sacrifices of well-being, and given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their due from the Israelites for all […]