Torah, The

Life is mostly waste. Take food, for example: we spend many hours earning the money, shopping, cooking, eating, and then most of it passes right through our bodies and into the city's sewer system

We happily accept those practices we identify with, but pronounce the others “old-fashioned,” obsolete and out of step with the modern world. What is the underlying argument that allows us the luxury of that rationalization—one which, in a moment of frank...

Clearly, humility is not the same as an inferiority complex. So what is it?

The inclination to self-sabotage on the cusp of an arrival.

This passage leaves many questions unanswered.

Life Lessons From the Parshah - Behaalotecha

Continuing with the story of Miriam who spoke Loshon Harah about Moshe. She is punished by G-d with leprosy and Moshe prays for her and she is healed and she is quarantined outside the camp for 7 days. The Nation does not travel and the people wait for he...

Moshe is told by G-d to gather 70 elders to help him to lead the people. The people are told that they would have meat for a full month and that it would become loathsome to them. Eldad and Medad though they do not appear at the tent of meeting since they...