Naso
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Alef Bet
Who placed the intimate secret of the cosmos on a plush toy dangling above my little boy's head?
By Yaakov Paley
And this little boy? When he awakens, what will he see? Undoubtedly he will marvel at neat rows of colored squiggles and wonder what they are doing in his crib. He is far too young to realize what he is looking at... |
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Should I Pray for the Death of Terrorists?
By Tzvi Freeman
The murder of others, even if they are the oppressors, seemingly amounts to a glorification of war... Prayer, I am told, is an act of enlightenment. Am I to pray for the brutal demise of the enemy? |
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What's In It for G-d?
What do you get for the G‑d who has everything?
By Tzvi Freeman
I would like to think that if I mess up, G‑d eagerly awaits my return, and when I perform a mitzvah, G‑d is pleased. But this contradicts everything I was taught about G‑d... |
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The Vessel
"Go to the craftsman who made me," said the man, "and say: How ugly is the vessel which you have made!"
Talmud, Taanit 20a-b
"Go to the craftsman who made me," said the man, "and say to him: How ugly is the vessel which you have made!" |
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Does G-d Have ADD?
People with ADD are often plagued by a relentless pursuit of perfection...
By Chana Weisberg
With their extremely detailed brains, people with ADD are often plagued by an unattainable pursuit of perfection, which in turn, prevents them from completing almost-finished tasks, in a vicious cycle of running off to the next thing and then the next… |
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To Love without Limits
Matching Special Need Children with Especially Loving Adoptive Parents
By Miriam Karp
“We usually are given a matter of days to find a Jewish home, or the child will go to a church or some other non-Jewish situation,” says Steve Krausz of Denver, who together with his wife founded The Jewish Children’s Adoption Network (JCAN). |
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Thoughts of an Almost-Homeless Person
By N. Ozick
What with this and that, my roommate and I both decided it was time to move on. We have till the end of the month. Where will we go? |
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Ramblings of a New Dad
Musings of a new dad four times over
By Nechemia Schusterman
Take a moment to think about how many things had to go right for nothing to be wrong with our baby! |
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Raising a Difficult Child
By Sara Chana Radcliffe
Some kids are easier to raise. Others, however, can be moody, stubborn, wild, anxious, intense or otherwise challenging. Parents have to deal with their disappointment when raising this kind of child... |
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Naso - Numbers 4:21-7:89
8,580 holy movers, the wayward wife, the life of the Nazir (no grape products, long hair, no contact with the dead), blessing priests and donor princes . . . and what it all means according to sages and mystics from Moses to today |
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The Levites
Ethics 2:2
By Yanki Tauber
Heaven or earth? The kollel or the kibbutz? We Jews have been debating the
issue for as long as we have been a people |
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Individual and Community
By Tali Loewenthal
Each day the Prince of one of the Tribes brought a magnificent gift to G‑d. But for each Prince although the gift was exactly the same, the symbolic meaning was different... |
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The Hiding Wife
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The Prophets speak of the bond between G-d and Israel as a marriage, and of Israel's sins as a wife's betrayal of her husband. Following this model, the sages of the Talmud see the Sotah -- the "wayward wife" discussed in our Parshah -- as the prototype of all transgression of the Divine will.... |
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Tasting Life's Bitter Waters
on the significance of the isha sotah
By Chana Weisberg
You are married, or intensely committed, to a vision, a goal, a dream. Then along comes life... |
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meeting place
Hayom Yom, Sivan 8
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Not only the tribe of Levi…
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Shemittah and Jubilee Cycles, 13:13
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A person does not sin…
Talmud, Sotah 3a
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Great is peace!
Talmud, Chulin 141a
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Cherish criticism
Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch
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May G-d bless…
The priestly blessing, Numbers 6:24-26
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