Category: Bamidbar
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Bamidbar 5786: It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,…
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Bamidbar 5784 (Pre Shavuot): Thou Shalt Not Kill
Decades ago the Israeli novelist Amos Oz visited Sweden and, as a famous novelist, received an audience with Olof Palme, the prime minister of Sweden. Palme was an outspoken critic of both the Soviet Union and…
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Bamidbar 5777: “A Time With No Date, A Space With No Location, & Power without Politics”
When I had been a rabbi for all of two months, a student knocked on my office door and told me that she had just noticed that the Ellul moon was waning in the sky and…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 