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Parsha Naso, is Bamidbar (Numbers) 4:21 – 7:89, and it is the longest single parsha in the Torah. This portion follows weeks of learning the Most High's ways of holiness, being a community, family and relationships. As a coin as two sides and is recognized by either side, mitzvot (commandments) have both positive and negative forms (do or do not). The last two portions emphasized the blessing of following Torah and mitzvot as well as the consequences or curses of chose to not keeping Torah and the mitzvot. Those truths already known to the people as they answered we will do and hear on Shavout at Mt. Sinai are the foundation of Naso. Three sobering examples of living and observing mitzvot become clear in this parsha. First, the census isn't taken lightly in Torah. When done incorrectly, there are harsh consequences. This accounting determined who had the job of transporting the mishkan (temple) at a mature age. The literal phrase means to “lift the heads”, and is understood to be a census taking. In other census heads weren't counted but coins were counted as given by the men. An indirect count of people for the census, yet this census was a “head count”. Multiple meanings and word pictures are present in Hebrew and this just one example of this playing out and shedding further light on this parsha. “To...
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Can / Should Women Wear Tzitzit? Women are exempt from wearing tzitzit because it is a time-bound mitzvah which a woman does not have to follow. If women are exempt from this commandment, does that mean she cannot observe it at all if she willingly chooses? We often see Reform and Conservative women draped in a tallit gadol. Many times it is ...
Why does it matter? This week two portions are read and we are finishing the book of Shemot or Exodus. In this week's portions are Vaykayel and Pekudei. The prophet and the kohen are to wear different clothes. Why? Clothes set us apart and can designate authority. The prophets were in and out of the peoples' lives and carried different messages to ...
Kedusha (holiness) is the theme opening again for this portion. Twice Moshe speaks, about this lifestyle required of them. A lifestyle with more required and more restrictions than the rest of the Israelites. The priests and high priests were more than just religious figures performing roles. They stood in for the people, made korbanot (sacrifices ...
El papel de la mujer en el judaísmo tradicional ha sido groseramente tergiversado y mal interpretado. La posición de las mujeres no es baja como mucha gente piensa, de hecho, la posición de la mujer en la halajá (ley judía), la cual se remonta a la época bíblica, es en muchos sentidos mejor qu ...
Esta semana se leen dos partes y estamos terminando el libro de Shemot o Éxodo. Las porciones de esta semana son Vaykayel y Pekudei. El profeta y cohen suelen llevar ropa diferente. ¿Por qué? La ropa nos diferencía y se puede designar a la autoridad. Los profetas fueron dentro y fuera de la vida de los pueblos y llevaba ...
La Mujer Judía refleja una pureza enorme en su manera de ser y actuar. Es una mujer integra con un nivel espiritual grande. Se cuida mucho tanto en su aspecto físico y en su aspecto interno. Es segura de sí misma; es buena madre, buena esposa y buena amiga. Es considerada una princesa, ya que todo el honor de una princesa resi ...
We just finished a wonderful home school lesson, and general life lesson. My son, who loves to write, became a little over zealous about finishing his lesson while I was briefly out of the room. When I returned, and checked his lessons, he had made a minor, but repeated mistake on the subsequent lessons he went on ahead and did. I pointed out to h ...
It has been just over two years since I decided it was time to take my journey with/to HaShem more seriously. By that I mean I began consciously performing mitzvot, studying Torah, walking away from treif and submitting to His will in my life. The first step on this new path was donning my talit katan, wearing it daily, all the time everywhere. Fr ...
Can we as women be “beautiful” without wearing designer clothes, which reveal more than they cover, or do we have a secret beauty that is most radiant when the focus is not on the physical? I have seen the evidence of how desensitized we are as a society in the way we view flesh, and the open display of sexuality. This saddens me, not ...
Time to be still and reflect after the seders while we are in the middle of Pesach after the Seders and before Shabbat. Where has the Most High met you and brought you out of your Mitzrayim / Egypt this year? When we tell the stories we are telling our story, to ourselves, and to our loved ones. The story reinforces who we are, whose we are, and i ...
Las mujeres pueden realizar muchas cosas en forma manual, artesanías, bordados, cuadros, cualquier tipo manualidades y mucho más. Existen en la comunidad judía muchas mujeres que realizan hermosos cuadros. Decenas de ellas por ejemplo, adquieren un dibujo pre hecho del Kotel (el muro Occidental), o un paisaje (cuadro) tradicio ...
“La mujer judía debe vestirse de manera recatada y pulcra” En sus vestidos no debe resaltar el color rojo, y sus ropas no deben ser escotadas. Hoy en día hay más posibilidades para las mujeres judías a la hora de vestir por lo que hay mucha variedad en blusas, faldas, sombreros, gorros, y más. El uso ...
La Mikvé es un baño ritual, que la ley judía indica que debe provenir de una fuente natural de agua. En la antigüedad, estas inmersiones se realizaban en arroyos, ríos o en el mar (Agua viva). Por cuestiones de que fuera más práctico para la vida en la ciudad, las mikvaot (ese es su plural) modernas, ...
El Shabat (Sabado Biblico) viene del hebreo שבת, Shabat, "descanso" es el séptimo día, así como el día sagrado, de la semana judía. El Shabat se observa desde el atardecer del viernes hasta la aparición de tres estrellas la noche del sábado. Según las prescripcione ...
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