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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Jun 4, 2026, 10:17 PM

From Blois to Beha’alotcha: The Lamps That Will Never Go Out

This week on Friday Erev Shabbos, the calendar brings us to the 20th of Sivan on Erev Shabbos. While it is no longer widely observed as a ta'anit tzibbur in our day, for centuries it occupied a significant place...

Jun 2, 2026, 12:31 AM

Talking to One’s Self – Naso 5786

So, it smashed everywhere. My beautiful blue bowl, my favorite bowl filled with warm oatmeal, fell off the table, spraying clay pottery and oatmeal all over the floor, the table, and my suit. I was a mess, and I was in...

Jun 1, 2026, 7:08 PM

Don’t Allow Your Blessings to Become Curses: Naso

We consider talent and ability to be a blessing and it certainly is. But such gifts can also be a curse as the 19th century sage, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin points out. Samson, (whose birth story is narrated...

May 30, 2026, 7:57 PM

Lift Up Your Heads – Naso & Jewish Pride

B.C. Solicitor General Nina Krieger and Rabbi Dan Moskovitz, marking Jewish Heritage Month for the first time at the B.C. Legislature, May 27, 2026. (Credit: Jaime Stein)

This past week, I stood in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the first public celebration of Jewish Heritage Month ever held in our provincial capital. That sentence matters because the key word is celebration. For years, Jewish communal engagement...

May 30, 2026, 10:02 AM

Another Baby, Another Whole World

This week, I saw something tragic. Our cousins had a baby who was born extremely premature and lived in this world for only a few minutes. My cousin and I spoke about the unique gift of breath, and how...

Steven C. Wernick

May 30, 2026, 12:33 AM

Anatevka Had No Fourth Path. We Do.

Monday night I saw Fiddler on the Roof. In Yiddish. Part of it was intellectual curiosity. Yiddish was the lingua franca of that world. Sholem Aleichem wrote in Yiddish. Tevye der Milkhiker — Tevye the Dairyman — was born in...

May 30, 2026, 12:32 AM

Shalom Brothers: Suspicion Is Not Love (Naso)

Parashat Naso contains one of the most difficult passages in the Torah: the ritual of the Sotah, the woman suspected of adultery. There is no way to make this text easy. A husband is overcome by jealousy. He suspects his...

William Hamilton

May 29, 2026, 6:13 PM

Thus Shall You Bless

A tender father-son moment with Hersh appears at the end of Rachel Polin-Goldberg’s new book. Twice every Shabbat morning, Jon would cover Hersh in his Tallit for the Priestly Blessing. Jon provides a glimpse of the thousands of intimate...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

May 29, 2026, 6:11 PM

Naso-Behalotecha: The Curse of Misguided Peace

The Eternal shall bless you and keep you, the Eternal will make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Eternal will lift up His countenance to you and give you peace. (Bamidbar 6:23-26) And Moshe heard...

Alexander Seinfeld

May 29, 2026, 8:41 AM

Who Invented the ‘Jewish Soul’?

Shabbat Table Talk from the desk of Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld May 28-29, 2026 • 13-14 Sivan 5786 • Naso (Num 4-7) . Last week's topic — Once Upon a Time a Jew? (a true story of a lapsed convert) — struck a chord with many people, but not...

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