The sixth section of the Book of Numbers opens with the law (or “rule,” chukat, in Hebrew) governing the process of purification from the state of ritual defilement that a person contracts through contact with a human corpse. After this, the Torah’s narrative advances to the final years of the Jewish people’s wanderings in the desert until they arrived at the threshold of the Land of Israel.
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Chukat: Final Journeys in the Desert
Numbers 19:1–22:1
First Reading: Numbers 19:1–17
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Seventh Reading: Numbers 21:21–22:1
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Daily Quote
Fear not afraid a sudden terror, nor the ruin of the wicked when it comes. [They may] take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak words, and it shall not stand; for G-d is with us.
–Proverbs 3:25; Isaiah 8:10
The Parshah
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