Posts Tagged: Chukat
Kohelet, Tolstoy, and the Red Heifer
The command of the parah adumah, the Red Heifer, with which our parsha begins, is known as the hardest of the mitzvot to understand. The...
Parshat Chukat: Did Losing Miriam Cause Moses to Strike the Rock?
It is a scene that still has the power to shock and disturb: The people complain. There is no water. It is an old complaint...
Parsha Chukat: The Consolations of Mortality
Parsha Chukat is about mortality. In it, we read about the death of two of Israel’s three great leaders in the wilderness -- Miriam and Aaron -- and the...
