Chukat
Truths aren’t written unto your soul. Truths are engraved into your soul.
How to overcome the defilement of death? The Red Heifer. Like all the essential aspects of living, it doesn’t make sense, it makes life. Miriam, Moses’ sister, passes away in the fortieth year in the wilderness. The people thirst for more than water. Moses is told that by talking to the rock stony matter may be turned to flowing spirit. Moses calculates that actions are stronger than words. Instead of teaching the rock to flow, Moses makes the rock flow. Thus, how could Moses enter the Land if the people had not yet learned what it means to turn matter to spirit? Aaron passes away and the medical sign is invented. Moses leads the people to victory over the Emorite kings and conquers the lands east of the Jordan.
Can a Disease Become a Cure?
Learn how to tap these powerful forces which feed your pains and convert them into formidable allies.
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Does Life Ever End?
Long before modern science, the Torah offers us an astonishing and sophisticated perspective on the eternal nature of life.
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What is Intelligence?
Discover how you can access new areas of your mind to help you live a more fulfilling and successful life by expanding your consciousness and horizons.
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Adrenalin Rush
Having a passion, a purpose with a sense of urgency, is healthy not just for the soul but for one’s physical body as well.
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Gentleness
A Q&A letter applying the story of Moses striking the rock instead of speaking to the rock in Parshat Chukat to explain how to get through to blocked people
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The Rebbe In His Laboratory
The story of why the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, once referred to a person in a letter, known to be an irreligious man, as a “G-d fearing man.”
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Chukat-Balak: What Can I Do About the Ongoing Killings in Israel?
This essay responds to the pervasive question: “What can I do about the deteriorating situation in Israel?” and offers an opportunity to sing together…
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Four and the Same
Included in the categories of one who is a contributor of charity & one who attends the study hall in 2 paras of Ethics of our Fathers is a chassid & rasha.
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Cloud Cover
In Parshat Chukat in the Book of Bamidbar we see that after Miriam’s death, the well of water was restored in the merit of Moshe, but what of the clouds?
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Three Sources of Moshiach
The Messianic Redemption is described in Parshat Chukat, Mishneh Torah & the Torah where the divine plan for creation will be fully realized in our world.
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The Decree
The law of the “Red Heifer,” the ultimate supra-rational divine decree read in Parshat Chukat, ritually purifies one after being in contact with the dead.
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The Limitations of Space
Story of a wealthy scholarly man who became the disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch, Rabbi DovBer, & then lost all his wealth which begged the question why?
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The Heifer and the Calf
The mitzvah of the red heifer is a ritual antidote to the spiritual impurity caused by contact with the dead; and a paradox & blueprint for all 613 mitzvot
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Chukat: The Salute
In Parshat Chukat Moses strikes the rock instead of speaking to it. Even today our modern customs &symbols have military undertones. So what does this mean?
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Chukat: 600,000,000,000
Gates and Buffett: Today we stand at the threshold of a new economic paradigm. The final frontier of the history of money and wealth: To see the acquisition of wealth as a means for giving and fuel for spiritual growth.
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Chukat-Balak: Wealth Question
The value and significance of questions, opinions and feedback; and the time-old question whether parents should bequeath their wealth to their children.
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Chukat: The Face
In Parshat Chukat Moses’ face turned pale: knowing what it means to be created in the “Divine Image” & learning the cycle of life & death through faces.
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