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Beit Midrash
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Bamidbar
- Chukat
administers it).
The narrative then jumps 38 years to discuss events, which occur just prior to our entering Israel. Miriam dies, & the well, which miraculously provided water in the desert, is gone. So the people clamor for water, & Hashem commands Moshe & Ahron to speak to a
certain rock to bring forth the water. Moshe strikes the rock instead, & is punished by being denied entrance to Eretz Yisrael.
The king of Edom refuses to let Bnei Yisrael pass thru his land. Ahron dies & is buried on Mt. Hor; his son Elazar becomes Kohen Gadol.
The people protest against Moshe & are bitten by fiery snakes. Moshe erects a pole with a copper snake on top; whoever looks at it is cured. The people sing a song of praise about Miriam's well. The Sedra ends with victories in battle over Israel’s perennial enemies Sichon & Og.
The Haftora is from Shoftim 11, the story of Yiftach.
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
