Torah Pearls today discusses the first chapter of Deuteronomy. “The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude. May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!”- Deuteronomy 1:10-11
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude. May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!
Torah Pearls today discusses Parshat Balak. “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” – Numbers 23:19
This weeks parasha is named chukat, which means laws or judgement. It is in this portion of Torah that Moses was told to make a serpent and put it up on a pole. Whoever was bitten by the plague of serpents that G-d had previously sent, would be healed by looking at this bronze serpent. ToThen […]
In this Torah Pearls Torah portion unfolds the gripping story of how the earth opened up and swallowed up several men alive. “So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly. Then all Israel who were around them fled […]
But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off from among his people. Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall […]
And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper. – Numbers 12:10
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord. The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. – Numbers 5:16-17
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers’ houses. – Numbers 3:20
For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. – Leviticus 25:55.