“A land which devours its inhabitants” Numbers 13:32
By Rabbi Joseph Wolfson
“We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, the watermelons, the green leeks, the onions and the garlic” Numbers 11:5
By Rabbi Daniella Kolodny
“The priest shall write these curses in a scroll, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness” Bemidbar 5:23
By Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton
“Take up the head-count of the entire community of the Children of Israel… according to the number of their names” Numbers 1:2
By Rabbi Joseph Dweck
And if you shall say: ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year? Behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase’; then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year” Leviticus 25:20-21
By Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers
“And you shall not desecrate My holy name, and I will be sanctified among the children of Israel, I am the Lord who sanctifies you” Leviticus 22:32
“And this shall be a law to you for all time: in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month you shall practise self-denial [ta’anu]; you shall do no manner of work, neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you” Leviticus 16:29
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