Category: Torah Portion

Massei

MAS’EY begins with a review of the forty years wandering. On the surface, the list of encampments and journeyings seems prosaic. However, the second Targum on the Torah, that of Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel,...

Mas’ei: Rabbi Abraham

By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Parshas MAS’EI: Numbers 33:1-36:13. Already in MATOS when Moses castigated the Sons of Reuven and Gad with being like the Ten Spies, the theme of Moses’ reproof enters the Torah,...

Va’era

This is the weekly class held at Netiv. Vaera (וָאֵרָא — Hebrew for “and I appeared” the first word that God speaks in the parashah, in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion...

Eikev: Rabbi Abraham

By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: EIKEV, Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25. Haftara: Isaiah 49:14-51:3. THE BOOK & THE SWORD; THE LOAF & THE STICK The Midrash on Parshas EIKEV teaches: “The Book and the Sword descended...