This is Torah Talk for the week of July 16th, 2017
Num. 35:10 Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11 you shall provide yourselves with places to serve you as cities of refuge to which a manslayer who has killed a person unintentionally [רוצח מכה נפש בשגגה] may flee.
Num. 29:12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall observe a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations.—Seven days you shall observe a festival of the Lord.— 13 You shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the Lord: Thirteen bulls of the herd [!], two rams, fourteen yearling lambs; they shall be without blemish.
This is Torah Talk for the week of June 18th, 2017
“Now Dathan and Abiram had come out and they stood at the entrance of their tents, with their wives, their children, and their little ones.” And they’d better watch their step! (Especially the little ones.)
This is Torah Talk for the week of June 11th, 2017
Num. 15:30 But the person, be he citizen or stranger, who acts defiantly [ביד רמה] reviles the Lord; that person shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has spurned the word of the Lord and violated His commandment, that person shall be cut off—he bears his guilt.
Rashi: Literally, “with a high hand”—deliberately rather than inadvertently.
Why does Lev 26:42 list the patriarchs in reverse order? A symposium.
Bonus: Rashi explains why the NJPS translation is wrong.
Lev. 26:42 Then will I remember My covenant with Jacob; I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
Happy Passover to all! Reminder: no podcast next week, when we are reading the holiday portion on Shabbat; the podcast will be back the week after, with Parshat Shemini.
