WRJ Voices: Matot Mas'ei
When I study Torah, I read the story of a people creating their own community structure. There is plenty of material to consider in this week’s double Torah portion, Matot Mas’ei.
Liz McOsker
WRJ Voices: B'Midbar
“On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, Adonai spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying, “Take a census of the whole Israelite company [of fighters] by the clans of
WRJ Voices: Chol HaMoed Sukkot
This week, so near the end of the annual cycle of Torah readings, we go back to the book of Exodus to read part of Ki Tisa for the Shabbat falling during Sukkot. This is a very action packed reading but we skip most of the action to focus on a unique passage, unlike any other in the Torah. After the crisis of the golden calf, God is very angry with the Israelites and refuses to lead them any further on their journey from slavery to freedom. It will be up to Moses to lead them himself.