It's time to bring back the blessing

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Nasso

For the week of May 30, 2026 / 14 Sivan 5786

Torah: B’midbar/Numbers 4:21 - 7:89

Haftarah: Shoftim/Judges 13:2-25

Originally posted the week of June 3, 2023 / 14 Sivan 5783 (updated)

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Reaching beyond the superficiality of self

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Shavuot

For the week of May 23, 2026 / 7 Sivan 5786

Torah: D’varim/Deuteronomy 14:22 – 16:17

Haftarah: Habakkuk 3:1–19

Originally posted the week of May 30, 2009 / 7 Sivan 5769 (updated)

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God is not safe

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But they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die. (B’midbar/Numbers 4:20; ESV)

B’midbar

For the week of May 16, 2026 / 29 Iyar 5786

Torah: B’midbar/Numbers 1:1 - 4:20

Haftarah: 1 Samuel 20:18–42

Originally posted the week of May 24, 2014 / 24 Iyar 5774 (revised)

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Israel's eternal right of appeal

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Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death. (Vayikra/Leviticus 24:16)

Behar & Bechukotai

For the week of May 9, 2026 / 22 Iyar 5786

Torah: Vayikra/Leviticus 25:1 – 27:34

Haftarah: Jeremiah 16:19 – 17:14

Originally posted the week of June 4, 2016 / 27 Iyar 5776 (revised)

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Attempts to manipulate God is extremely dangerous

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Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death. (Vayikra/Leviticus 24:16)

Emor

For the week of May 2, 2026 / 15 Iyar 5786

Torah: Vayikra/Leviticus 21:1-24:23

Haftarah: Ezekiel 44:15-31

Originally posted the week of May 21, 2016 / 13 Iyar 5776 (revised and expanded)

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Celebrating the return to Zion

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I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God. (Amos 9:14-15;)

Aharei Mot & Kedoshim

For the week of April 25, 2026 / 8 Iyar 5786

Torah: Vayikra/Leviticus 16:1 – 20:27

Haftarah: Amos 9:7-15

Originally posted the week of April 29, 2023 / 8 Iyar 5783 (revised)

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With God, anything is possible, except nonsense

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For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain. (Isaiah 66:22; ESV)

Tazria & Metzora

For the week of April 18, 2026 / 1 Iyar 5786

Torah: Vayikra/Leviticus 12:1 - 15:33; B’midbar/Numbers 28:9-15

Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24

Originally posted the week of April 22, 2023 / 1 Iyar 5783 (revised and expanded)

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Our actions make a way bigger difference than we think

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And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God. (2 Samuel 6:5-7; ESV)

Sh’mini

For the week of April 11, 2026 / 24 Nisan 5786

Torah: Vayikra/Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47

Haftarah: 2 Samuel 6:1 – 7:17

Originally posted the week of April 10, 2021 / 28 Nisan 5781 (revised)

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