Monthly Archives: February 2010

Weekly Torah Portion – Terumah

  Meaning of the name The portion is named Terumah,, literally "offering", because it begins with God telling Moses to command the people to bring offerings that will be used in building the Desert Tabernacle. The portion contains detailed explanations as to the different cultic artifacts that are to be made for the Tabernacle. The [...]

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Why Moses was a stutterer?

Even the father of the prophets couldn’t be perfect. Though he took the people of Israel from Egypt to the promise land, He didn’t enter to it because e made a small mistake in the desert. But today we are going to speak about the beginning of Moses’ life, the day that he became a [...]

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Why Moses is the father of the prophets?

The question why is the second after what. At first man wants to understand the subject, the figures, the story, the place and the time; only then, he wants to understand why we have the story, why this character and not the other one…. Today we are going to ask the question why about one [...]

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Benaiah the son of Jehoiada- a great warrior or a terminator- part 2

After we saw what a great warrior is Benaiah, we shall go now to the beginning of the book of kings and we will examine the second option: the one that speaks about him as the terminator. From my point of view a terminator is one that kills the enemy, whether it is true enemy [...]

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