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Jun 30, 2022, 7:23 AM

Parashat Huqqat: The Two-State “Solution” & Land for Peace

The Hebrew word “Huqqat which HaShem has commanded. . . .” Bamidbar 19:1-2. The Torah is not here speaking about just any decree, but rather, is speaking about a “decree of the Torah” . The nature of the Red Cow...

Jun 22, 2022, 4:14 PM

Parashat Qorah: How to Select ‘Your Rabbi’

In last week’s Parashah, we discussed, among other things, the twelve spies (the Torah commandment to settle the Land of Eretz Yisra’el). This psak Halakha , which allows a person to violate a Torah commandment in order to save...

Jun 15, 2022, 4:40 PM

Parashat Shelah: Idolatry, War, and Pikuah Nefesh

In the year 5781 (2021), Parashat Shelah was read shortly after a cease-fire agreement was signed, which suspended open hostilities between Gazan-Arabs and Medinat Yisra’el (the State of Israel), in the 5781 (2021) Gaza Battle. In Parashat Shelah, we learn...

Jun 8, 2022, 6:33 PM

Parashat Beha’alotekha: Is Israel a Racist, Apartheid State?

Parashat Beha’alotekha is set in “bamidbar” . Fast-forward some 3,300+ years. After multiple and long exiles, the Jewish people – and the Jewish nation – are back in their Land, with a sovereign government. Some things, however, have not changed....

Jun 1, 2022, 4:12 PM

Shavu’ot: The Relationship Between Torah and Antisemitism

The Festival of Shavu’ot (Passover) seder. Thus, the Festival of Pesach ; are properly viewed not as separate events or holidays, but rather, as the beginning of a process, which ultimately culminates many years later, with the Israelites preparing...

Jun 1, 2022, 12:26 AM

Parashat Naso: Torah, Democracy, & Free Speech

The Hebrew word “naso” of the sons of Gershon. . . .’” Bamidbar 4:21-22. Thus, Parashat Naso begins with a discussion of counting, that is, of taking a census of the Levites and assigning to them various tasks, most...

May 25, 2022, 7:48 PM

Parashat Bamidbar & Yom Yerushalayim: From Conquest to Redemption

Sefer Bamidbar ” means “in the desert” or “in the wilderness.” Parashat Bamidbar the name “Numbers.” The Ramban gave three reasons for the census: (1) To document the miraculous growth of the Jewish people, who had descended to Misrayim as...

May 24, 2022, 2:37 PM

Jewish Prayer & Police Accountability

In an Orwellian attempt to deny that HaShem gave Eretz Yisra’el, including Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount), to the Jewish people and to the Jewish nation, the State of Israel, a self-proclaimed democracy, has long enforced a law which...

May 18, 2022, 6:39 PM

Parashat Behuqqotay: The Jewish Constitution

The root of the Hebrew word “Behuqqotay” means “constitution.” Thus, we see that the Torah – HaShem’s statutes – is the “The Jewish Constitution.” Likewise, the Shema, “Hear Yisra’el, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One ,”...

May 11, 2022, 11:07 PM

Parashat Behar Sinay: The Most Misunderstood Oaths

Parashat BeHar Sinay is the name of the mountain. “The mountain,” which is located outside of, but on the way to Eretz Yisra’el from Misrayim (Egypt), is the location where the Jewish people received the Torah. In Parashat BeHar Sinay,...

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Menashe Sasson is a Sephardic rabbi and American attorney who resides in Jerusalem, Israel. He is the Executive Director of The Israel Foundation, a U.S.-based not-for-profit organization that provides Jews and Noahides with a Torah perspective on The Land of Israel, Contemporary Jewish Law, and Torah for Noahides. HaRav Sasson can be contacted via: www.TheIsraelFoundation.org.

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