Covenant & Conversation

We are spiritual beings but we are also physical beings. We cannot be spiritual, close to G‑d, all the time. That is why there is secular time as well as holy time.

Then there is the exclusion of a Kohen who had a physical blemish—blind or lame, had a deformed nose or misshapen limb, a crippled leg or hand, a hunchback or a dwarf. Why?

What was truly remarkable about the wilderness years was not that the Israelites were surrounded by the clouds of glory, but that they were an entire nation without a home or houses; they were like nomads without a place of refuge.