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Parashat Naso: Commentary
Is it good to be a nazir? Is the Torah recommending this? Explore this question through commentaries.
Parashat Naso: Commentary
Our פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) wonder about the proestly blessings: What berakhah (blessing) are we asking for? And what’s the request for protection? Is there a connection between the blessing and the protection?
Parashat Naso: Commentary
The offerings of the נְשִׂיאִים (nesi’im, chiefs) come in sets of 12. But there are only six wagons to carry them all. Why’s that? What can it teach us?
Parashat Naso: Commentary
The end of our Parashat Naso gets super repetitive. All 12 נְשִׂיאִים, chiefs, bring the same offerings to the Mishkan. Why does the Torah repeat each offering, word for word, when they’re all the same?!
Parashah Va'era Family Discussion Guide
There is a major debate about God hardening Pharaoh’s heart. The most simple understanding is that God made Pharaoh more stubborn during the plagues so that he wouldn’t free Benei Yisrael. Was this a fair thing to do?
Parashat Re'eh: Commentary
What does it mean to pour out blood like you pour out water?
Parashat Terumah: Commentary
Something confusing is happening here with the order of events with receiving the torah, חֵטְא הָעֵגֶל (heit ha-eigel), and building the mishkan. What do some commentators think is going on?
Parashat Pekudei: Commentary
In the opening pasuk of our parashah, there’s a new description of the mishkan, one that hasn’t yet come up in the Torah. For the first time, the mishkan is called מִשְׁכַּן הָעֵדֻת (mishkan ha-eidut).
What important thing was being witnessed and shared here?
Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Commentary
What can we learn from the way that Avraham’s servant chose Rivkah?
Parashat Hayyei Sarah: Commentary
Why did Lavan run to meet Avraham's servant at the well?
Parashat Lekh Lekha: Commentary
Why did God want to convey the message that God listens?
Parashat Lekh Lekha: Commentary
What is Avraham asking when he says: “God, how will I know that I will possess it (Eretz Yisrael)?”
Parashat Vayera: Commentary
What does the angel mean when he tells Hagar that God heard the cry of Yishmael “בַּאֲשֶׁר הוּא־שָׁם where he is”?
Parashat Vayera: Commentary
Why would God test Avraham with the binding of Yitzhak? Why would God test anyone?
Parashat Va'era: Commentary
God commands Moshe to go and "command them to Benei Yisrael..." but what did God command?
Parashat Noah: Commentary
What was the problem with building the tower of Bavel?
Parashat Noah: Commentary
What does it mean that Noah is a “righteous, pure person,” specifically “in his generations”?
Parashat Kedoshim: Commentary
Our פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) wondered the meaning of the phrase לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל־דַּם רֵעֶךָ (do not stand upon your neighbor’s blood). What exactly is being commanded?
Parashat Bereishit: Commentary
What might it mean that humans should rule over the earth? Explore two different commentators' interpretations?
Parashat Bereishit: Commentary
What does "the image of God" mean?