Torah Talk with Michael Carasik
When is a tribe not a shevet? When it is a mateh (and vice versa). We begin "the Book of Tribes" this week, and one of the two Hebrew words for "tribe" will play a major role. (Click here for source sheet.)
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Torah Talk with Michael Carasik
It's the section about the jubilee year, so naturally I'm thinking about Mark Twain and Thomas Jefferson. . . (Click here for source sheet.)
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Torah Talk with Michael Carasik
Leviticus tells the priests they must avoid ritual contamination with death—unless the death is that of a close family member. But the text uses a standard Hebrew word in a very unusual way in order to issue this command. (Click here for source sheet.)
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