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...
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...
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...
