What does it really mean to join the Jewish people? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Brent Spodek explore the themes of Shavuot through the lens of Megillat Ruth and Jewish conversion. They examine what it means to join…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar
How does the Jewish people’s journey through the desert shape our approach to Torah? In this week’s episode, Rabbi Leon Morris and Rabbi Tzvi Hirschfield explore the theme of openness in Torah study, using the wilderness in the Midbar as…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar
Can pluralism and individuality enhance our sense of a shared framework and obligation to one another? In this week’s Parsha Podcast, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield is joined by Rabbi Jonathan Leener, Pardes North America Faculty Associate, for an exploration of this…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar
Parashat Bamidbar 5782: Heavenly Jerusalem, Earthly Jerusalem. A Shiur for Jerusalem Day and Bamidbar Description: In Celebration of Jerusalem Day, we study Psalm 122 and its dreamy depiction of an ancient Jerusalem pilgrimage. We reflect on the makom (place/space) and…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar
Parashat Bamidbar is always read around Shavuot time. What is the connection? And what is the eternal message that emerges from the long census and mapping that fills our parasha? The answer is connected to the flags. Sources: Bamidbar 2:1-2…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar, Jewish calendar, Shavuot
At what age does a child become an adult? The classic Bar mitzvah speech used to be “Today I am a man!” but, really? Do you know any 13-year old who is an adult? Learn all the details and more…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar, Educator resources, Meaning-making
The midbar is both the name of the parsha as well as the setting for most of the narratives of the book of Numbers. While the word is often translated as “desert”, we will discover that it means something else…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar
This week we start a new book of the Torah! It is just a little over a year since Bnei Yisrael exited Egypt, 11 months since they received the 10 Commandments on Mt. Sinai, and one month since the Mishkan…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar, Educator resources, Meaning-making
The opening line of the book of Bamidbar seems like nothing more than an introduction, but in reality it has a profound lesson to teach. This podcast explores what it means to live in life in reference to the Divine…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar
Parshat Bamidbar gives an exhaustive census of the Israelite nation in the wilderness, followed by the mapping of the wilderness encampment. But what is the purpose of counting the nation? Why does God instruct Moses to take a census of…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar, Educator resources, Meaning-making
The word midbar means desert, and its root d-b-r (in Hebrew) means word. What does one have to do with the other? In this podcast, Rabbi Meir Schweiger discusses this question and, by doing so, examines how this experience was…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar
The Pardes Parsha Discussion is a new weekly series by faculty member Rabbi Alex Israel, designed to stimulate discussion around the Shabbat table, especially with teenagers. Click here to download and print this week’s Parsha Discussion on Bamidbar: Why a…
Tanakh, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Bamidbar, Educator resources, Meaning-making
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