Weighing Unity Against Idol-Worship

PARASHAT HASHAVUA: THERE IS A GROOM AND BRIDE – WHY NO WEDDINGS?

The Desert of Mindfulness

Parashat Hashavua: Land, Heaven, Place, and Yerushalayim

Positive Social Structure

Liminal Space

G-d loves Israel!

BAMIDBAR

Raising and Waving – This is Needed for Educators

Rav Kook on the Importance of the Flag

The Sound of Silence

The Significance of a Flag and a Tallit

We Are Family

The Jewish People are like one soul in many bodies.

Something to Stand Up For

It is not a coincidence that Jerusalem Day falls on the eve of the Torah reading of Bemidbar.

Like The Stars

Why are the Jewish People compared to the stars?

Law as Love

Joy in the celebration G-d's love led King David to “leap and dance” when the Ark was brought into Jerusalem. When love defeats dignity, faith is alive and well.

Book of People

why does the Torah spend so many verses and details in enumerating the population of the Jewish people at that time? And why does the Torah mention the names of the leaders?

Count on the Versatility of “Pakod”

Let us pray for a full redemption to get to the point that Hoshea speaks of in this week’s haftara: Bnei Yisrael should be “as many as the granules of sand by the sea, which cannot be counted”.

A Little Order in the Turmoil

It is possible to see <b>order</b> even in the turmoil we are in. Order meaning control; control means that there is direction and there is a purpose; in other words, there is Gd!

The Desert

A question naturally arises about the significance that all of this was taught and expounded upon in the desert of Sinai. What difference does it really make where it happened?