By Rabbi Yitzchok Aryeh Strimber The beginning of this week’s Torah reading discusses the laws of the Red Heifer. One who became impure from a deceased person, must be sprinkled […]
Weekly Torah Portion
Insight and themes on the weekly Torah portion (parshah) read aloud in synagogue.
By Rabbi Yitzchok Aryeh Strimber A devastating episode transpires in this week’s Torah reading. Korach starts an uprising against Moses, challenging him with the claim that the appointment of Moses’s […]
In this week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Korach, Moshe’s first cousin, Korach, challenges Moshe’s leadership and Aharon’s position as Kohen. He gathers together a group to challenge Moshe and Aharon, including […]
By Rabbi Yitzchok Aryeh Strimber At the end of last week’s Torah reading, an episode transpired in which Miriam spoke disparagingly about her brother Moses, and was subsequently punished with […]
The emotion that best describes this week’s Torah portion is disappointment. Deep disappointment. The Jewish people were riding high off the Exodus, the splitting of the sea and the receiving […]
In this week’s parshah, Hashem tells Moshe to gather 70 zikainim, 70 elders, to help him lead the Jews. Why 70? There is a deeper significance to this number. How […]
A short Torah Thought on Parshat Beha’alotcha with TorahMates coordinator Rabbi Rabbi Mordechai Beer
By Rabbi Yitzchok Aryeh Strimber In this week’s Torah reading we are introduced to the “Nazir.” A Nazir is someone who accepts upon him/herself to conduct him/herself with extra holiness […]
This week’s Torah portion, Parshas Naso, is the longest parsha in the Torah. The parsha begins with the completion of the counting of the Levites between the ages of 30 […]
Parshat Behar by Blimi Olen In parshas behar we are warned not to take נשך, interest. The word נשך, interest, has the same numerical value as זה נחש, this is […]
