Weekly Torah Commentaries

Balak

Numbers 22:2-25:9

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Text Studies

Which Is Mightier--The Word Or The Sword?

Provided by Hillel’s Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Learning, which creates educational resources for Jewish organizations on college campuses.

 

Not Seeing Is The Sin by Rabbi Neal Joseph Loevinger

Provided by KOLEL--The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning, which is affiliated with Canada's Reform movement.

Commentaries

The Nature of Bilaam's Prophecy by Ilana Stein

Provided by Canfei Nesharim, providing Torah wisdom about the importance of protecting our environment.

 

No & Maybe by Evan Wolkenstein

Provided by American Jewish World Service, pursuing global justice through grassroots change.

 

Distance and Proximity by Julia Appell

Provided by American Jewish World Service, pursuing global justice through grassroots change.

 

Bilaam Versus Pinhas by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky

Provided by the Jewish Outreach Institute, an organization dedicated to creating a more open and welcoming Judaism.

 

Instructed To Curse, Inspired To Bless by Reuven Kimelman

Provided by CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a multi-denominational think tank and resource center.

 

The Place From Which We Pray by Rabbi Aaron Gruman

Provided by the Orthodox Union, the central coordinating agency for North American Orthodox congregations.

 

Seeing Their Faces But Not Their Doors: Housing, Homelessness And Dignity by Alana Suskin

Provided by SocialAction.com, an on-line Jewish magazine dedicated to pursuing justice, building community, and repairing the world.

 

No Rest(s) For The Wicked by Rabbi Laurence Edwards

Provided by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in North America.

 

Spirit Strength, by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch

Provided by the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Conservative rabbinical seminary and university of Jewish studies.

 

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