BEMIDBAR
The Thirty-fourth Sedra 23-29 Iyar 5786 Link to HAFTARAH ● Link to MIDRASH FROM THE TORAH Numbers 1:1-4:20 The fourth book of the Torah opens in Sedra Bemidbar with a robust offering of concrete data: leaders’ names and genealogies, numerical results of more than one census, arrangement and position of tribes and divisions, and detailed…
32/33. BEHAR-BECHUKOTAI 5786
Link to HAFTARAH ● Link to MIDRASH FROM THE TORAH Leviticus 25:1-27:34 In the final two sedras of the Book of Leviticus, structure and value are conceived as one and ultimately divine. In the first of these, Sedra Behar, the structure of time as introduced already in the weekly Sabbath of human labor is extended…
31. EMOR 5786
FROM THE TORAH Leviticus 21:1-24:23 In previous sedras of the Book of Leviticus, Israel has been instructed about the distinction between the permitted and forbidden, the pure and the impure, in divine worship, physical afflictions, and intimate and civil behavior. In this week’s Sedra Emor, these foci are narrowed to the Kohanim (Priests), except…
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