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Parashat Bamidbar | Bamidbar on the Bar: On coming together then and now
27 May 2022 | 27 Iyar, 5782
By Reuven Marko
IMPJ's Immediate-Past Chair and Co-Chair of the International Advisory Council
This Shabbat we begin the reading from a new Chumash, BaMidbar, also know as the Book of Numbers. Well, it is not that new because it has been read from for millennia, but for us it is a new reading of this annual cycle. Among others, we read this week about the way the camp was arranged around Ohel Moed, the Tabernacle: “Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ‘The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own flag, with the banners of their fathers’ households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting at a distance.’[1]” Read more
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Celebrating Jewish Peoplehood on the 7th of Cheshvan | October 13th 2021
If I would ask a Jewish person today, what is the meaning of the date 7th of Cheshvan, I imagine he would scratched his head in confusion. The 7th of Cheshvan is a rather insignificant date in the Jewish calendar, in which the blessing of the years of T'filat Amidah is changed, and a plea for rain is added. Yet, the reason for changing the blessing, specifically in this date, gives this day a special and festive meaning.
