Posts tagged with ‘Naso’

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Naso 5774

by Rabbi Yaakov Grunewald

The Book of Bamidbar is divided into two distinct parts and covers two separate  periods in Israel’s journey in the wilderness. The first part, which consists of the first five Sidrot, describes the events which happened immediately after the Exodus. It begins on the first day of the second month of the second year after […]

Naso 5772

by Rabbi Yaakov Grunewald

The meaning of the Hebrew name of today’s Sidra is COUNT.  This Sidra is the longest in the Torah and it contains 176 verses. It is remarkable that the longest Psalm, 119, also, consists of 176 verses and the longest tractate in the Talmud, Babba Batra, has 176 pages. The midrashic significance of this Sidra […]