Bemidbar 15:22-31 analyses the difference between intentional and accidental sin. Verses 22-29 describe the consequences of sinning in error. Either the community or the individual must bring a sin offering, a shegagah, to atone for unint...
Posted on 28 June 2019, By Rabbi Joel Levy
Moses’ frustration at the people’s consistent complaints wore him down. ‘I can’t take any more of this!’ he cried out to God. ‘Where am I to get meat to feed them? I can’t bear these people any longer!’ God’s response to...
Posted on 28 June 2019, By Chazan Jaclyn Chernett
René Cassin was born in 1887 to a Sephardi Jewish family in the South of France. A distant relative of Alfred Dreyfus, whose trial for treason electrified the world from 1894-1906, Cassin was always mindful of the potential for abuses of...
Posted on 13 June 2019, By Michael Mocatta