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What do the footballer Steven Gerrard and the spy Caleb have in common? In this week’s Torah portion as we read of the spies scouting out the land, we see the size of the task which lay ahead, and we read about Caleb setting an example for us all, when facing seemingly insurmountable challenges. For […]
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This Shabbat, one of my daughters took her oldest daughter to the Bat Mitzah of a friend. My daughter was troubled by the Torah Portion, Sh’lach L’cha, specifically the account of the man who was stoned to death at God’s command for collecting wood on Shabbat. (Numbers 15: 32-36)“What kind of a God is this?” […]
In this week’s parasha, Shelach Lecha, Moses sends 12 spies to scout out the land of Canaan. They spend 40 days and nights in the land (a familiar number, yes?) and return bearing fruits – grapes pomegranates and figs so large that it takes two people to carry them. 10 of the spies report that […]
