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18 chapters · by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg

Light from the Future: Parshas Bamidbar

Published by the Jewish Discovery Center. Every chapter is free to read below.

  1. Bamidbar – Angel Flags The Jewish people are divided into four camps. These four camps reflect four aspects of our relationship with G-d: Torah study, prayer, performance of…
  2. Bamidbar – Are You on Automatic Pilot? Life is about appreciating all the gifts that were given to us by our forebears. But true life requires that we do not rely on those gifts. We must…
  3. Bamidbar – Clarity G-d knows our needs better than we do. We need to pray to G-d so that we gain clarity as to what we really need and what we should want. BAMIDBAR…
  4. Bamidbar – Counting in the Desert Humility is not denial of one’s virtues and accomplishments. True humility is realizing that all your talents are expressions of the Divine. BAMIDBAR…
  5. Bamidbar – Counting Counting is a Jewish exercise. Much of Jewish practices require counting up to them. However, it is not just a means to an end. Counting is…
  6. Bamidbar – Do You Count? If we only knew how much we counted we would never be the same! BAMIDBAR BAMIDBAR
  7. Bamidbar – Excuse Me, Do You Have a Second? It takes just one moment or movement—the Hebrew word for moment can also be translated as movement—to turn the whole world around and bring salvation…
  8. Bamidbar – Judaism and Genealogy Respect for Elders is Central to Judaism. But, we are living in a time that the elders have much to gain from the youth. When the respect goes in both…
  9. Bamidbar – Keep the Passion Under Wraps There is nothing more desirable than passion for G-d and His teachings. Yet that passion must be directed towards making our world a “dwelling place…
  10. Bamidbar – Learning and Yearning The Torah was given in a desert. It is a place where we thirst for much more than what we have. The desert dynamic of Torah reminds us to pay…
  11. Bamidbar – No Exchanges The bond between G-d and the Jewish people is innate and immutable. Torah, G-d’s wisdom, is the medium which illuminates and activates their…
  12. Bamidbar – Please, Force Me! Education is the art of revealing something ostensibly new but was always a part of the student’s consciousness. The revelation at Sinai “merely”…
  13. Bamidbar – The Census Triumvirate The Torah connects us to G-d and to each other in at least three ways. It is G-d’s communication with the Jewish people and our communication with…
  14. Bamidbar – The Cover Up To see the good in everyone one must first see the person as part of a whole healthy and vibrant organism: the Jewish nation. One must also be…
  15. Bamidbar – The Modern Day Levites The Jewish people have weathered all types of storms. Besides history’s worst physical threat to our existence, the Holocaust, Jews have been…
  16. Bamidbar – Transcendent Space While we inhabit the world of time and space, we can transcend it, when we take refuge in the Tent of Meeting—houses of Worship and Torah study.…
  17. Bamidbar – United Nation The Rebbe emphasized that our focus on unity should shift from repairing the past disunity to being prepared for the ultimate unity of the future.…
  18. Bamidbar – When Counting Really Counts Love is strongest when it is tested. Love is tested when we are most vulnerable, down in the dumps and distracted. G-d demonstrated His love for us…

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