The Priest shall take a stick made of cedar, hyssop, and a scarlet thread, and throw them into the burning of the cow… A ritually pure man shall gather the ash of the cow… ..
Written by Jacob Solomon
THE mitzvah that we do not grasp is the parah adumah – the Torah calls it a chok, ie a mitzvah that we do not understand. The question is, though, WHY did HaShem ..
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et mishkan hashem timei (Num. 19:13) (‘he defiled the Tabernacle of G-d’); o be’etzem adam o bekever (ibid. verse 16) (‘or a bone or a human ..
Written by Dr Meshullam Klarberg
The pasuk says ‘a man who dies in the tent’ (19;14), which chazal darshen to mean ‘torah words are only kept within someone who kills himself over ..
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vechibes begadav (Num. 19:7) (‘and he shall launder his garments’) vechibes looks very much like a Pi’el, 3rd person, past, singular verb. Except ..
Written by Dr Meshullam Klarberg
I heard this tremendous vort from Rabbi Tugenthaft. The Torah says that the mountain that Aharaon dies upon was called ‘hor hahar,’ which Chazal tell ..
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During their sojourn in the wilderness, the Jewish nation had three remarkable leaders: Moshe, Aharon and Miriam. In Parshas Chukas, the passing of both Aharon and Miriam ..
Written by Rabbi Yosef Levinson
Two of our ‘three shepherds’ in the desert die in this sedra; Aharon and Miriam. R’ Sorotskin notes that whilst the Torah records that Bnei Yisrael ..
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“Moshe and Aharon assembled the congregation facing the rock and said to them: Listen now you rebels! Shall we bring forth water from this rock? So, Moshe raised ..
Written by Howard jackson
Parshas Chukas; Be the Best : Though much occurs in our sedra, we shall focus on one issue, that of Moshe’s sin – which prevented him and Aharon entering ..
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