Chukat
Truths aren’t written unto your soul. Truths are engraved into your soul.
How to overcome the defilement of death? The Red Heifer. Like all the essential aspects of living, it doesn’t make sense, it makes life. Miriam, Moses’ sister, passes away in the fortieth year in the wilderness. The people thirst for more than water. Moses is told that by talking to the rock stony matter may be turned to flowing spirit. Moses calculates that actions are stronger than words. Instead of teaching the rock to flow, Moses makes the rock flow. Thus, how could Moses enter the Land if the people had not yet learned what it means to turn matter to spirit? Aaron passes away and the medical sign is invented. Moses leads the people to victory over the Emorite kings and conquers the lands east of the Jordan.
Chukat: The Face
In Parshat Chukat Moses’ face turned pale: knowing what it means to be created in the “Divine Image” & learning the cycle of life & death through faces.
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Chukat-Balak: Wealth Question
The value and significance of questions, opinions and feedback; and the time-old question whether parents should bequeath their wealth to their children.
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Chukat: 600,000,000,000
Gates and Buffett: Today we stand at the threshold of a new economic paradigm. The final frontier of the history of money and wealth: To see the acquisition of wealth as a means for giving and fuel for spiritual growth.
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Chukat: The Salute
In Parshat Chukat Moses strikes the rock instead of speaking to it. Even today our modern customs &symbols have military undertones. So what does this mean?
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The Heifer and the Calf
The mitzvah of the red heifer is a ritual antidote to the spiritual impurity caused by contact with the dead; and a paradox & blueprint for all 613 mitzvot
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The Limitations of Space
Story of a wealthy scholarly man who became the disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch, Rabbi DovBer, & then lost all his wealth which begged the question why?
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The Decree
The law of the “Red Heifer,” the ultimate supra-rational divine decree read in Parshat Chukat, ritually purifies one after being in contact with the dead.
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Three Sources of Moshiach
The Messianic Redemption is described in Parshat Chukat, Mishneh Torah & the Torah where the divine plan for creation will be fully realized in our world.
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