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The Importance of Keeping Our Word. These two portions, Matot (Tribes) – Masei (Journeys) which ends the fourth book of the Torah Bamidbar (Numbers) deal with preparing this second generation after the exodus from Egypt to conquer the land. Many things are repeated because it takes time for us to learn and even then, we […]
26 Tammuz What is the Source of Living Water? In this week’s Haftarah portion, we read: “My people have committed two sins: They have abandoned me, the Source of Living Water, and they have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that hold no water.” (Jeremiah 2:13) I learned this lesson firsthand when I was about […]
Keep your Word! Tammuz 26 5780 These two portions, Mattot (Tribes) – Masei (Journeys) end the fourth book of the Torah Bamidbar (Numbers). Mattot emphasizes the subject of vows. Our people, Israel had made a vow to “do and obey” the Ten Commandments that Moshe had brought down from Mt. Sinai. These tablets, the Constitution […]
What is our responsibility as human beings? 2 Av 5776 בלוג מַּטּוֹת – מַסְעֵי, ב” אב, תשע”ו The double portion Mattot-Maasei “tribes-journeys” ends the book of Numbers and begins with the idea of vows. Yeshua told us in Matthew 5:37 in his Sermon of the Mount that we should not swear about anything but that […]
9 Av 5776 פרשת מַּטּוֹת – מַסְעֵי, ט’ אב, תשע”ו We are at the end of this journey through the books of the Torah. After the 17th of Tammuz we begin the 3 weeks of sorrow followed by 7 weeks of teshuva which prepare us for the High Holidays. The Haftarah has very little […]
