Posts Tagged: parshat balak
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...
The Power of Prophecy
Three people are called prophets in the Torah — Abraham, Miriam, and Moses. And yet Moses, the greatest of them all, is usually referred to...
In Judaism, Religion and Nationhood Coincide
The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the news. One is reading the local Jewish paper, the other...
