We are a nation famous for many things; for teaching monotheism to the world, surviving against natural odds, for being the only nation to have returned to our homeland ..
Written by d fine
Parashas Mattos/Masei – Know where you came from… This week we have the final sedra in the book of Bamidbar which also happens to be a double sedra, and the longest ..
Written by Daniel Sandground
There is a contradiciton between two psukim which are next to each other in our sedra! HaShem tells Moshe to ‘take the revenge OF BNEI ..
Written by d fine
After we already have beaten Midyan in war, we are given laws about kashering utensils. This paragraph receives an interesting intorduction; it starts with the words ..
Written by d fine
Mattos-Massei; A Direct Connection : As far as I am aware, there is no bigger leining than this double sedra; a total of 244 psukim (that’s 68 more than Naso, ..
Written by d fine
In the portion of Matot we read about the war against Midyan. The spoils had to be divided equally between the army and the people who had stayed behind. The tax however ..
Written by Asher Ben Shimon
“Ki Ani Hashem shochen b’soch Bnei Yisrael – For I am Hashem, Who dwells amidst the children of Israel” (Bamidbar 35:34). The Imrei Aish ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
At the beginning of Perek 32, the Pasuk tells us that the Reuven and Gad desired to settle not in Eretz Yisrael, but on the side of the River Jordan that they stood ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
“Why do you dissuade the heart of Bnei Yisrael from crossing to the Land …? This is what your fathers did, when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the Land ..
Written by Benjie fine
I saw a short, but profound vort: “Moshe sent them . . . and Pinchas . . . and the sacred vessels.” (31:6) The gemara explains that the “sacred ..
Written by Benjie Fine