Welcome to the wilderness. This is the name of the 4th book in the Torah that we started to read this week. It is also the name of this weeks parsha (Torah portion). In Hebrew, we would pronounce it b’meedbar. The other name for this book is Numbers because this is the book where we count the number of people who heard the, “Word of god.” Enough of the theatrics, let’s delve into the book and the parsha. We start … Continue reading
Hello all you wilderness seekers, That’s right, we have finally made it into the book of the wilderness. This shabbat we will read parsha (weekly Torah portion) B’meedbar (which means wilderness in Hebrew), and this pasha also happens to be the first parsha of the fourth book of the Torah. This book has the same name as the parsha, but is called Numbers in English because it begins and ends with a census of all the tribes. Let’s wander into … Continue reading