Parshat Eikev
Unusually Rabbi Steinsaltz does not examine any of the verses in the parsha. He sees this parsha as transitional, and that later sections describe the same ideas with greater force. […]
Parshat Vaetchanan
Devarim 4:15-19
For your own sake, therefore, be most careful–since you saw no shape when the LORD your God spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire — not […]
Parshat Devarim
Devarim 1:12
How ( אֵיכָ֥ה ) can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!
Megillat Eikah 1:1
How does the city sit solitary?
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz […]
Parshat Matot-Masei
Bamidbar 33:1-2 (Robert Alter)
These are the journeyings of the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt by their battalions, in the hand of Moses and Aaron. And […]
Parshat Pinchas 5779
Bamidbar 25:11
“Pinchas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the Priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion [zealousness] for Me, so that […]
Parshat Balak 5779
Parshat Balak
Who speaks for God?
Bamidbar 24:15-16 He took up his theme, and said, Word of Balaam son of Beor, Word of the man whose eye is true, Word […]Parshat Chukat 5779
Bamidbar 19:2
This is the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and […]
Parshat Korach 5779
Bamidbar 16:3
They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and the LORD is […]
Parshat Shelach
Bamidbar 13:1-3
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one man from each of […]
Parshat Beha’alotecha
Bamidbar 11:4-6, 11-12, 14,16-17, 24-29
The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember […]