“You shall cut away the thickening of your hearts and stiffen your necks no more” Deuteronomy 10:16
By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor
“But if you search there, you will find the Lord your God – if you seek with all your heart and soul” Deuteronomy 4:29
By Rabbi Natasha Mann
“How can I bear your troubles, your burdens, and your quarrels all by myself?” Deuteronomy 1:12
By Rabbi Benjy Morgan
“Moses said to them: If you do this, if all your shock-troops go to battle… until the land has been subdued… then when you return here you shall be clear before the Eternal and before Israel; and this land here shall be your holding under the Eternal. But if you do not do so, then you will have sinned against God and know that your sin will overtake you” Numbers 32:20-23
By Rabbi Paul Freedman
“The daughters of Zelophehad, of the Manassite family… drew close”. Numbers 27:1
By Rabbi Miriam Lorie
“Now Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, so he did not, as on previous occasions, go in search of omens, but turned his face toward the wilderness” Numbers 24.1
“We will not pass through fields or vineyards, and we will not drink water from wells. We will follow the king’s highway, turning off neither to the right nor to the left until we have crossed your territory” Numbers 20:17
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“And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague had stopped” Bemidbar 17:15
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“We saw the Nephilim there – the Anakites are part of the Nephilim – and we looked like mere grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them” Numbers 13:33
“Miriam spoke, and Aaron, against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had taken: ‘Has God spoken only through Moses? Has [God] not spoken through us as well?’ God heard it” Numbers 12:1-2
“Speak to Aaron and his sons: ‘Thus (Ko) shall you bless the people of Israel.’ Say to them…” Numbers 6:23
“And the chieftan of the Simeonites was Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai” Numbers 2:12
“Then shall the land be paid be paid her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate and your are in your enemies’ land: even then shall the land rest and repay her Sabbaths” Leviticus 26:34
“You shall count seven weeks from the day after the ‘sabbath’ on which you bring an omer of grain as a wave-offering – seven complete weeks. You shall count to the day after the seventh week, making fifty days” Leviticus 23:15-16
“You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” Leviticus 19:2
“Then they said to one another, ‘We are not doing right. This is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent! … Come, let us go and inform the king’s palace” 2 Kings 7:9
