Today's global migrants, like our
peripatetic forebears, are suspended
in the precarious place between
a difficult past and a
hopeful future
It's hard to imagine the identity crisis
the Israelites must have gone through
upon exile from slavery. Yet for the
victims of the Holocaust who were forced
to leave their homes and today's global
migrants seeking shelter elsewhere,
the feeling is familiar. MORE>
God told Moses to, "Take a total count of the
entire community of the sons of
entire community of the sons of
Israel according to their families, according
to their father’s house, counting the
to their father’s house, counting the
names of all males twenty years old and upward."
But the Levites were not allowed to number themselves
among them. For you shall
among them. For you shall
Place of the Testimony.
They shall carry the
around it. All the other sons of Israel shall camp
with their own tribe, according to
with their own tribe, according to
their divisions, at some distance around
the Tent of Appointed Meeting.
the Tent of Appointed Meeting.
Different views about
Parashat B'MIDBAR
from Hillel
from Orthodox Union
from American Jewish University
from AJWS
from CLAL
from KOLEL
from Women of Reform Judaism
The haftarah selection is from Hosea 2:1-22.
The haftarah for redemption. In the opening
verses, God promises that the people
The haftarah for redemption. In the openingverses, God promises that the people
of Israel will one day be as multitudinous as
the sands of the sea. They will be
the sands of the sea. They will be
recognized as being children
of the living God,
of the living God,
and Judah and Israel will assemble
utogether unified under one leader.
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