TORAH PORTION; What Does It Mean to Listen With Your Heart?Sultar, Jeff
My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help Donate Traditionally, on Shabbat and holiday mornings, a selection from one of the biblical books of the Prophets is read after the Torah reading. The portion is known as the haftarah (hahf-tah-RAH, or in Ashkenazic He...
The oral Torah enjoins us to read the weekly Torah portion, to light Sabbath candles, and to attend synagogue to offer prayer. Consider further the laws of inheritance or the execution of the various civil laws of Israel. The Torah assumes people will get married but it does not provide an...
economically, and emotionally unite their lives. The contractual portion implies that the couple has legal obligations to one another throughout their lives (or until they decide toget divorced). However, that's only one way of defining
So wouldn’t you know it, when I went to look up this week’s Torah portion, Naso, guess what I found? Three lines, shaped like a hand, containing one of the oldest blessings known to our people. I’ve said these words at our b’nai mitzvah, confirmation, weddings, and baby naming...
A vital element of the Torah portionNaso(orNasso), found in the Book of Numbers in theHebrew Bible(Tanakh), concerns a treatise of the Talmud. It explains theordeal of the bitter water, an ancient Israelite religious practice—a trial by ordeal to determine the guilt or innocence of a wom...
The Weekly Portion of Torah How to study the Weekly Portion of the Torah. Preparing for Shabbos. A Deeper Understanding of Reviewing the Parshah. When to Study the Parshah. Preparing for Shabbos How the Children of Israel prepared for Shabbos in the Desert, and how we prepare for Shabbos tod...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran
So it is written explicitly in the Torah portion, Nitzavim(Deut 29:23–27), “All nations will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do thus to this land? Wherefore that awful wrath?’ They will say, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, God of their fathers . . . the Lord uprooted...
Stringing the Pearls: How to Read the Weekly Torah Portion More often than not, our questions will be only implicit, below the surface of our conscious awareness as we read. The great divide in approaches to the Bible is what I’ll call historical consciousness. On one interpretive side is...