Chukat

Balaam's Evil Plan

While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. (Numbers 25:1) Balaam found he could not put a curse on the children of Israel, so he advised King Balak to pursue a different tactic. Rather than attempt a military solution or rely on occult manipulations, he introduced the lust of the flesh and the lust of the...

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Land for Peace

Bamidbar (Numbers) 19:1-22:1 | Shoftim (Judges) 11:1-33 One of the strangest stories in the book of Judges is contained in haftarat Chukat. It is the account of the fall and rise of Jephthah, the son of Gilead. Being the son of a harlot, he was ostracized by his half brothers. He then took up residence away from them in another part of the country. He...

Month: Tammuz (תמוז)

Keep Your Focus on Him

The month of Tammuz is upon us. It is as if we blinked our eyes and we were already through the spring festivals. Now it is time to move forward into the long summer months. There are a little less than four months from the end of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks) until the beginning of the High Holy Days in the fall. Imagine a...

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Grafted In from Mount St Helens

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As we left our wonderful friends in the Seattle area and headed south, we drove through the beautiful Cascade mountain range. I became overwhelmed by... Watch »