by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 1, 2022 | Purim, Shavuot (Pentecost)
In the story of Creation, God ends every day by noting the day and saying it was good. The formula established on the first day reads, “And there was evening and there was morning, a first day” (Genesis 1:5). One notable divergence is when God comments, “And there was...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 1, 2022 | Bible Study
As the name implies, the Book of Numbers begins with a census of the Jews one year after leaving Egypt, setting the number of non-Levite males over the age of 20 at 603,550. When the Torah is read in synagogues on Shabbat, an accompanying section of the Prophets which...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 31, 2022 | Bamidbar, Community, God, Israel
As its name implies, the Book of Numbers opens with a census, counting the men of Israel for the purposes of war, and then describes how they camped in the desert. Very much like an army camp, the tribes were arranged in four groups of three tribes each. At the center...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 30, 2022 | Bible Study
The Israel-US alliance is a covenant sealed with the blood of brave warriors. One of the finest examples of this was Colonel David Daniel “Mickey” Marcus who, after serving in the US Army during World War II, was killed in Israel’s 1948 War of...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 29, 2022 | Bamidbar, Israel
The Book of Bamidbar, which literally means ‘in the desert’, is referred to in English as Numbers. Rather appropriately, it begins with a census of the Children of Israel (Numbers 1). This is, in fact, the third census taken during the two years since the...
