The story of the spies is viewed as an episode revealing the Jews’ basic lack of faith in God (Numbers 13,14). This is similar in its underlying theme to the golden calf story, which describes the ...

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Being a parent has been the greatest joy and struggle of my life. The tension of exploding with love and exploding with frustration. The balance of enjoying your kids and also taking care of your home ...

The Israelites are hungry. For the last few weeks, they’ve been eating the crumbs of the matza they brought with them from Egypt. One day, G-d brings them a new cuisine. The Jews open the flap of ...

A glimpse at the narrative in the book of Numbers reveals an almost parallel pattern of events to that which occurred to the Jews after their leaving Egypt. In Numbers, the Jews began to murmur that ...

Photo by Jake Blucker on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus declares, “I am the bread of life.” Jesus often speaks in symbolic ways, especially in John. The symbol of the bread of life, the bread from ...

Thank you for correcting an error and clearing up a mystery in my last entry. First, the error. I wrote that the Passover seder “never pauses to consider the ...

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This week’s Parsha, Beshalach, continues the account of the miraculous Exodus from the enslavement of Egypt. The monumental event occurred when Hashem visited the devastating plague of the firstborn ...

Yes, you read the headline correctly, and no, it’s not a mistake. Pesach has already finished. Pesach began on the afternoon of the fourteenth of Nissan, the day on which we [are commanded to] ...