PARSHA POSTS: NASO

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Lila Shoshana Chertman

Jun 9, 2025, 6:48 AM

Burned Alive in Boulder: When Silence Screams

Boulder, Colorado. When I free associate those words, I don’t think of beautiful scenery. Instead what comes to mind is Jon Benet Ramsey’s unsolved kidnapping and murder several decades ago, and now, Jews being set on fire with Molotov...

Jun 8, 2025, 4:32 PM

The incident of the “Sotah,” the woman suspected of being unfaithful to her husband, is quite fascinating. It is the only Mitzva in the Torah that is decided by a miracle. The suspected promiscuous woman is given a concoction to...

Lori Prashker-Thomas

Jun 7, 2025, 4:48 PM

The Blessing of Being Seen – Reflections on Parshat Naso

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Parshat Naso is the longest Torah portion, filled with details that range from census counts to priestly blessings, from ritual purity to Nazirite vows. On the surface, it can feel technical, even overwhelming. But when I slow down and...

Jun 6, 2025, 6:24 PM

Will AI replace me? Not where it counts most

Illustrative. Mother and daughter in a hammock. (iStock)

It's unsettling to think our creativity may be outdone by machines, but no machine will bless my children the way I do (Naso)

William Hamilton

Jun 6, 2025, 2:58 PM

Because of Who We Are

“That’s the thanks I get?!” Jeff was right to be furious. Some years ago he sat in my study trying to process his frustration. He’d gone out of his way to be generous with his neighbor up the road....

Jun 6, 2025, 2:55 PM

The Divine Census and Quantum Collapse: Lessons in Identity and Potential

As we read the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar), we find ourselves immersed in the Torah’s counting of the Jewish people and all twelve tribes. The Shalo Hakodosh (Rabbi Isaiah (Yeshayahu) Halevi Horowitz) points out that this book is named...

Jun 6, 2025, 2:54 PM

We are Blessed!

The inclusion of the priestly blessings in this week’s portion of Naso, could almost go unnoticed, lost in the minutiae of details, sometimes ominous, outlining life and duties in the desert. The directive also occurs without much preamble where...

Jun 5, 2025, 11:34 PM

Three Years of Writing: Parshat Naso and Personal Reflection

Exactly three years ago, on June 7th, 2022, I began writing my blog. At the time, I didn’t realize it would become a weekly commitment—one in which I would seek to connect the weekly parsha with the world around...

Jun 5, 2025, 11:22 PM

Parshah Through the Mediator’s Lens: Naso

Naso courtesy Copilot AI

In the Torah portion Naso (Numbers 4:21–7:89), we encounter one of the more emotionally and legally complex sections: the Sotah ritual, which provides a procedure for resolving a husband's jealousy and suspicion of infidelity where there are no witnesses...

Ruthie Hollander

Jun 5, 2025, 8:29 PM

When Judaism is uncompromising, it hurts

Ruthie in high school. Photo courtesy of the author.

At the beginning of each school year, we signed a handbook. In it were the guidelines we agreed to live by if we wanted to stay enrolled and out of trouble: No unsupervised internet. No movie theaters. Modest clothing...

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