Shabbat Letter

Torah Portion MATTOT-MASSEI – Bamidbar (Numbers) 30:2-36:13 Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 “From the sons of Issachar—men who know how to interpret the signs of the times to determine what Israel should do—200 chiefs with all their kinsmen under their command;” 1 …

Torah Portion PINCHAS – Bamidbar (Numbers) 25:10-30:1 Haftarah: Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 “For who among men knows the things of a man, except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the things of God except the Ruach …

Torah Portion BALAK – Bamidbar (Numbers) 22:2-25:9 Haftarah: Micah 5:6-6:8 “because the hill country should be yours. Though it is a forest, you will clear it, and to its farthest borders it will be yours—for you will drive out the …

Torah portion CHUKAT – Bamidbar (Numbers) 19:1-22:1 Haftarah: Judges 11:1-33 Shabbat Shalom, dearly beloved, The other Shabbat, I received this word from Yah as a message for our Talmidim behind bars. But the more they afflicted them, the more they …

Torah portion KORACH – Bamidbar (Numbers) 16:1-18:32 Haftarah: 1 Samuel 11:14-12:22 “You are not to pollute the land in which you are. Blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for land polluted by bloodshed except by the …

Torah portion SHELACH – Bamidbar (Numbers) 13:1-15:41 Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24 “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, whoever you allow to remain will become to you barbs in your eyes and thorns …

A Watchman’s Warning Torah portion BEHA’ALOTCHA- Bamidbar (Numbers) 8:1-12:16 Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7 “Earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry find no resting place!” Job 16:18 TLV Shabbat Shalom, dearly beloved, There is a point in time when …

Torah portion NASSO – Bamidbar (Numbers) 4:21-7:89 Haftarah: Judges 13:2-25 But if some of the branches were broken off and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root of the olive …

A Watchman’s Warning In memory of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim Torah portion BAMIDBAR – Bamidbar (Numbers) 1:1-4:20 Haftara: Hosea 2:1-22 “As it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are counted …

Torah portion BEHAR-BECHUKOTAI – Vaikra (Leviticus) 25:1-27:34 Haftara: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 “Then the kohen is to go examine, and behold, if the plague has spread within the house, it is a destructive mildew inside. It is unclean.” Leviticus 14:44 TLV Shabbat …