Month: May 2023

PARSHA From Reform Judaism https://reformjudaism.org/torah/portion/naso-i Naso I (I נָשֹׂא – Hebrew for “Take a Census”) – Numbers 4:21-5:31 The Eternal One spoke to Moses: “Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral house and by their clans.” – Numbers 4:21-22 SUMMARY A census of the Gershonites, Merarites, and Koathites between the ages of …

YERUSHALAYIM SHEL ZAHAV Jerusalem all of gold/ Jerusalem, bronze and light/ Within my heart I shall treasure/ Your song and sight. By Naomi Shemer 1967, melody based on an old Basque Lullaby PARSHA From Reform Judaism https://reformjudaism.org/torah/portion/bmidbar B’midbar (בְּמִדבַּר — Hebrew for “In the Wilderness”) – Numbers 1:1−4:20 On the first day of the second …

WORDS TO REMEMBER Those who gain wealth by unjust means are like a partridge hatching eggs it never laid: in the middle of life it will forsake them, at the end they are [known to be] fools. – Jer. 17:11 PARSHA From Reform Judaism https://reformjudaism.org/torah/portion/bhar-bchukotai B’har – B’chukotai (בְּהַר – בְּחֻקֹּתי Hebrew for “On Mount …

PARSHA From Reform Judaism https://reformjudaism.org/torah/portion/emor Emor (אֱמֹר‎‎ — Hebrew for “speak”) – Leviticus 21:1-24:23 The Eternal One said to Moses: “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin, . . .” – Lev. 21:1 SUMMARY: • Laws regulating the lives …