Numbers

God and Man- Pinhas 5783

According to God’s command to Moses, the allotment of the land of Israel should be assigned according to size. The more populous tribes should be assigned a greater portion and the less populous tribes a lesser portion (Numbers 27:54). This procedure is eminently...

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Self Respect – Hukkat/Balak 5783

It was Peretz Smolenskin (1842-1885), an early Zionist thinker, who asserted that ant-Semitism is a direct consequence of the absence of Jewish self-respect. If Jews do not respect themselves, gentiles will not respect them either. Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin of...

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Truly Great Men – Korah 5783

In 1840, following a series of lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle published his book on Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History in which he contended: “the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have...

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What lies behind you and what lies ahead of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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