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Any love which is dependent on something, when the ‘something’ ceases, the love ceases. Any love which is not dependent on anything will never cease.… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 19: True Love

This week we begin the Sefer {Book} of Bamidbar. “Hashem spoke to Moshe in the midbar {wilderness}.” [1:1] Moshe was commanded to count the members… Read More »The Key to Life

“…and they established their genealogy according to their families, according to their fathers’ household…” (1:18) Rashi teaches that prior to the census which is recorded… Read More »Great Expectations

The Story The fourth grade was excited to begin their class trip to the Museum of Science. The children gathered in front of their school,… Read More »Counting People

It must have been chaos in the desert, a city planner’s nightmare, before the encampment of the Jewish people was reorganized in the second year… Read More »Chaos in the Desert

The Book of Numbers begins just that way – with many numbers. It counts the Jews who were in the desert and assigns unique divisions… Read More »Counted Out

Women are obligated in prayer, and therefore are also included in the prohibition not to eat before they have “prayed for their blood.” However, even… Read More »Women and Children

THE DESERT IS an unforgiving place, unless God is leading you through it with great miracles. To most of the world, a desert is a… Read More »What’s For Desert?

But if you do not listen to Me and do not perform all these commandments and if you despise My statutes and reject My ordinances,… Read More »It Still Whispers, “Shabbos”

There are four types of students (lit., among those who sit before the Sages) — a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sifter. The… Read More »Chapter 5, Mishna 18: The Gift of Selective Memory