by katie@betalef.org | Aug 3, 2021 | Torah Reflections
Re’eh: Deuteronomy 11:26 – 16:17 “Blessings & Curses: In the “I” of the Beholder” This week’s Torah portion is close to my heart. It was the Torah portion of the week of my wedding, some years ago, and is...
by katie@betalef.org | Jun 29, 2021 | Torah Reflections
Pinchas: Numbers 25:10 – 30:1 “The Beautiful Life of Rabbi Moses” There is a beautiful passage in this week’s Torah portion where God tells Moses to ascend a mountain and, from its peak, to gaze at the Promised Land before him. After that, God...
by katie@betalef.org | Jun 24, 2021 | Torah Reflections
Balak: Numbers 22:2 – 25:9 “Beating Life Into Submission” This week’s Torah portion retells one of the most peculiar stories in Torah; that of Balaam and his donkey. Balaam is a professional curser hired by Balak, king of Moab, to curse the...
by katie@betalef.org | Jun 16, 2021 | Torah Reflections
Chukat: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1 “Dust & Ashes Sprinkled by the Shechinah” A famous saying in the Talmud teaches: “These are things the fruits of which a man enjoys in this world, while the principal remains for him in the World to Come:...
by katie@betalef.org | Jun 9, 2021 | Torah Reflections
Korach: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32 “Battle at The Edge of The Promised Land” We left the Israelites at the edge of the Promised Land last week. Twelve tribal leaders, who had gone to scope out the Land, had come back. Ten to two, they advised...
by katie@betalef.org | Jun 3, 2021 | Torah Reflections
Sh’lach L’cha: Numbers 13:1 – 15:41 “Why The Spies Were Wrong” This week, in Torah, we meet again the story of the twelve elders, leaders of the Hebrew tribes, whom Moses sends to spy upon the Land of Canaan ahead of the...
