14 When you will come to the land that YHWH, your God, is giving you and possess it and dwell in it, and you will say, “I shall place a king over me like all the nations that surround me,” 15 you will surely place a kin...
Posted on 18 August 2020, By Nahum Gordon
There’s a word which comes up twice in this parsha and nowhere else in the Chumash, the 5 Books of Moses. (It does appear elsewhere in Nach) – belial. The first time we encounter it is in describing a “subverted city”. One whi...
Posted on 13 August 2020, By Rabbi Zahavit Shalev
One of the joys of the lockdown has been doing things I didn’t think were possible before. For example, every Monday, I now have a Hebrew lesson over Zoom with my mother who lives far away in sunny&nbs...
Posted on 6 August 2020, By Janine Stein