The 4th Month on the Jewish Calendar-Tammuz Part One From the Mountaintop of Sinai to the Descent of Babylon  Part of an Ongoing Series entitled Hidden Sparks Beneath the Surface   By Elisheva Tavor aka Betty Tabor Givin All of the months are interre...

UNIVERSAL TORAH Lessons for Humanity from the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum • To subscribe to the UNIVERSAL TORAH weekly email click here • Back to Parshah Index SHELACH LECHA Torah Reading: SHELACH LECHA, Numbers 13:1-15:41 With the arri...

By Rod Bryant Not long ago, a Texas politician James Talarico grabbed headlines with three words: “God is non-binary.” You can probably guess what happened next. Some people erupted in outrage. Others cheered. The internet did what the internet does....

The 3 rd Month of Sivan Matan Torah – The Giving of the Torah From the Heart of Heaven – Reflections on the Sinai Experience Part of an Ongoing Series entitled Hidden Sparks beneath the Surface By Elisheva Tavor aka Betty Tabor Givin In the midst of...

Lessons for Humanity from the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum BEHA’ALOSCHA Torah Reading: Numbers 8:1-12:16 Haftara: Zechariah 2:14-4:7 * * * After the dedication of the Sanctuary — the portable Temple and repository of the Torah — the Chil...

TORAH FOR THE NATIONS The weekly Torah portion and its lessons for all people Naso, Numbers 4:21-7:89 Owning Up by Avraham ben Yaakov A cherished part of American folklore is the story of how as a boy, George Washington, later to become first preside...

Lessons for Humanity from the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum • To subscribe to the UNIVERSAL TORAH weekly email click here • Back to Parshah Index NASO Torah Reading: Numbers 4:21-7:89 THE LONGEST PARSHAH Parshas NASO, with 176 verses, is...

The Burning Bush and Isaiah 53: Israel Through the Fire By Steve Eisenhauer, The Exodus Project   Isaiah’s portrayal of the servant as “a tender plant” and “a root out of dry ground” belongs to a much older prophetic tradition that begins with Moses’...

TORAH FOR THE NATIONS The weekly Torah portion and its lessons for all people Bamidbar, Numbers 1:1-4:20 The Beauty of Diversity by Avraham ben Yaakov The book of Numbers – fourth of the Five Books of Moses – opens with the people of Israel still enc...

Lessons for Humanity from the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum • To subscribe to the UNIVERSAL TORAH weekly email click here • Back to Parshah Index BAMIDBAR Torah Reading: Numbers 1:1-4:20 IN THE WILDERNESS It was fitting that the Giving of...