Chukat-Balak

While he was talking, the future rebbe took out a coin and began to flip it up into the air

Elisheba appears just once in the Torah. To learn more, we dig deep into rabbinic and kabbalistic texts…

Winnowing refers to the act of removing chaff from grain, using wind to blow the lighter chaff away from the heavier kernels.

The details differ (a tiger raised in a Brooklyn apartment, a circus lion losing it in the ring) but the basic story is the same: a large cat "suddenly" sheds its domesticated persona and... well, you don't want to be in its way when that happens

My journey to find my Jewish reality is fairly recent and in the beginning was quite tentative. When I began to seek out places to go to services, I had no idea how healing that would be.

If striking the rock was so awful, why was it okay so many years earlier? Why didn't Moses follow G-d's simple instructions? Why did this seemingly minor offense have such severe consequences?