The parashah of Naso contains many distinct themes: the census of the Levi’im, the laws of ritual purity, the Nazir, the Birkat Kohanim, and the dedication of the Mishkan. Yet one section stands out with unusual force because of how deeply it touches real life: the Torah’s demand that holiness must
The opening of Parashat Beha’alotcha returns to a subject already discussed earlier in the Torah: the lighting of the Menorah in the Mishkan. At
An Introduction to Sefer Bamidbar
The fourth Book of the Torah, Bamidbar — “In the Wilderness” — tells the story of the forty years the Jewish
“The desert was not empty. It was where the Jewish people learned who they truly were.”
