Posts Tagged: Balak torah
We Don’t Always Need to Be in the Room to Make a Difference
This week, I listened to a riveting episode of The Rest is History, the ever-excellent podcast hosted by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. This one...
Shabbat Balak: What the Torah Teaches Us About Waging a Moral War
In our current section of the Torah, as the tribe of Israel makes its way towards the Promised Land, they encounter three very different situations...
Parsha Balak: Assimilation Won’t Solve Antisemitism
This is an extraordinary moment in Jewish history for good and not-so-good reasons. For the first time in almost 4,000 years, we have simultaneously sovereignty and...
The Jewish People Need Not Dwell Alone
In the course of blessing the Jewish people, Bilaam uttered words that have come to be seem by many as an encapsulation Jewish history: How can I curse...
