This Torah portion contains the height of Jewish liturgy, the priestly blessings. What is a blessing? I often meet with a person who is looking to change their life and it comes down to “the moment ...

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In the weekly Torah portion Naso, we read about two consecutive halachic subjects. One deals with the sotah – a married woman who cheated on her husband and had an intimate relationship with another ...

When you live a life filled with meaning, spiritual fulfillment ... you receive a remarkable gift: a profound inner peace and emotional serenity that no material wealth can offer. Birkat Kohanim (the ...

For many readers the detailed list of identical offerings brought by the tribal leaders at the Tabernacle’s inauguration, at the end of Parshat Naso, ranks at the top of cumbersome Torah readings.

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The sotah laws (Numbers 5:11–31) may explain a troublesome comment made by Rabbi Eliezer in the Talmud: “Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her tiflut [sometimes translated as ‘obscenity’]” ...