Bamidbar 5772

BS”D The Book of Bamidbar Parashat Bamidbar 5772 Four sections. Part A: In our parasha Moshe, Aharon and the tribal leaders conduct a national census of men between the ages of 20 and 60 (excluding the tribe of Levi) with the final tally of 603,550. Of these...

Be’chukotei 5772

BS”D Parashat Be’chukotei (in Eretz Yisrael) 5772 Our parasha begins: When you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. Your threshing will continue...

Emor 5772

BS”D Parashat Emor 5772 HALLEL ON YOM HA’ATZMAUT No one is counting, but probably close to one million people in Eretz Yisrael recited Hallel on Yom Ha’atz’maut. No one is counting, but there are many who do not recite Hallel, and even some who recite tachanun...

Acharei-Kedoshim 5772

BS”D Parshiot Acharei and Kedoshim (in Eretz Yisrael) 5772 Part A: In Bamidbar, chapter 14, the Torah relates the tragic episode of the ten miraglim (spies or scouts) who convinced the nation to defy the wishes of HaShem that they liberate Eretz Yisrael from its...

Parashat Tazria 5772

BS”D Parashat Tazria and Yom Ha’Sho’ah 5772 Part A: After relating the laws incumbent upon a Jewish woman who has given birth, with regard to matters of tuma (x-slate) and the sacrifices she must bring to the Bet Hamikdash, the Torah turns its attention to the...

Pesach 5772

BS”D Pesach 5722 Part A: This is being composed on a very auspicious day – the 10th of Nisan. On this date which occurred on Shabbat of the year that we left Egypt, every Jewish family was commanded to take either a young goat or a young lamb in...