Counting Courage: A D’var Torah on Parashat Pinhas
I have been reading Parashat Pinhas on Shabbat in the Synagogue almost every year since 1982. After so many cycles through the parasha, it feels only right to pause […]
How Big Was Israel in the Wilderness? Four Ways to Read the Numbers in Numbers
Modern readers often do a double take when they encounter the censuses in the book of Numbers. In Numbers 1 and Numbers 26, the text records around 600,000 males […]