PONDERING THE PARASHA: PARASHAT BESHALAH
פרשת בשלח By Bet Midrash Member Sylia Aboudi Parashat Beshalah: A Nation’s Basic Needs Sometimes, when reading this week’s parasha, Parashat Beshalah, with the hindsight that we have now, it is easy for us to look at dor hamidbar as a contentious, argumentative, and stubborn crowd. They complained at every turn, one day witnessing miracles
מציון תצא תורה
מציון תצא תורה Read a Debar Torah from Israel Scholarship Recipient Vivian Cohen Perashat Beshalah It is difficult to understand how Benei Yisrael could forget the miracles that they had undergone just a few days earlier. After God had just split the sea for them on their escape from Egypt, the Jews reacted to their
PONDERING THE PARASHA: PARASHAT BO
פרשת בא By Bet Midrash Member Fortune Cohen Parashat Bo: Sanctifying Rosh Chodesh and Ourselves In this week’s parasha, Parashat Bo, we learn about the first mitzvah given to the Jewish people through Moshe, Rosh Chodesh, the head of the new month. For this Mitzvah, Bnei Yisrael is commanded to sanctify the new month according
