Use the chapter and verse to go to the Torah portion in your own Bible or commentary. OR: Call your local synagogue, and ask when the Torah Study group meets. They will likely be a mixed group of adults, some of
Noah was born and named before our today Portion begins – in Genesis 5 – however, since he is the main character of this Parashah, we will take time to understand the prophetic meaning of his name. Noah is one of the most significant characters in the Bible—and even though everyone kn...
However, putting that verseback into its James 2 context, in my humble opinion, I think it means if you depend solely on your praxis to reconcile you with God, that’s the standard by which you’ll be judged. However, if you depend on faith, and out of that faith, comes your practi...
The meaning of words is very important to me. While I’m not as much of a Hebraist as my teacher, Rabbi Art Green, I value finding out what words precisely mean. That is a question with this week’s Torah portionPekudei. A common origin of the termpakadaccording to theBrown-Driver-...
Today some people are like the authors of this week’s Torah portion in Leviticus, considering diseases and other misfortunes punishments from God, so it is right to exclude themetzora. Others are like the king of Aram in thehaftarah, too distracted by the appearance of people who do not lo...
In this week’s Torah portion, Moshe writes saying,30:15 ‘See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; 30:16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ...
These scenes of David as the shepherd boy are absent in the LXX, which continues from the previous chapter with David already a member of Saul’s entourage. In a verse found in both the MT and LXX, the Israelites react with fear and dismay to Goliath’s taunts, and David brave...
This newest book on Numbers is different from her first two books on Genesis and Exodus, in that it is organized along thematic lines rather than adhering strictly to the weekly-Torah-portion model. She aims to be more generally accessible, following up on her previous book, The Murmuring Dee...
Of the animals that can be eaten, the kidneys, fats around the stomach, a portion of the liver, the diaphragm, and the juicy body fats were to be burnt on the altar. The kidneys symbolise to the thought making process. The juicy fats around the stomach, the good fats of the body and...
Until the mid-nineteenth century, scholars attended solely to contradictions within the narrative portion of the Torah. I’m speaking of figures like Spinoza, Astruc, Eichhorn, De Wette, and Ewald, for those familiar with the names. These figures read the narratives of the Torah with a keen ...