Yeshiva
Beit Midrash
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Bamidbar
- Matot
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Bamidbar
- Masei
The battle against Midyan is then described, as is the distribution of spoils and the kashering of vessels.
Reuven and Gad step forward to ask permission to live east of the Jordan, which has land suitable for their abundant livestock. Moshe reluctantly agrees, after securing the tribes' promise to first assist in conquering the Land.
Parshat Masei summarizes the route traveled by Bnei Yisrael during their 40 years in the desert, from the Exodus until the arrival at the Jordan River. We are told to expel the foreign inhabitants of the Land. The exact borders of Israel are delineated. Special cities are set
aside for the Levi'im, which also serve as Cities of Refuge for accidental man slaughterers, who flee there to escape retribution from next of kin.
The Sedra - and Sefer Bamidbar - concludes on a happy note, with a further discussion of the successful petition of the daughters of Zlafchad to have a portion in the Land, due to their intense love of Israel.
The Haftora is "Shimu d'var Hashem" (Jer. 2), continuing the Haftorot of Rebuke before 9 Av.
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
