Numbers
The wages of drawing water and rearranging chairs.
How to know if an argument is for the sake of heaven.
The ethical purpose of making a despised figure into a great prophet.
Balaam’s ass, and Buridan’s.
Politics must be as moral as possible if a nation is to flourish in the long run.
Finding the rationale for the nonrational.
And a message for Yom Yershalayim, Jerusalem Day.
Koraḥ’s failed rebellion against the leadership of Moses shows that a culture based on grievance cannot last.
It takes time to learn to be free.
Or a reference to a unique section of the Bible?
In this week’s Torah reading, God feeds the people quail “until it comes out of their noses.”
When he struck the rock to bring forth water.
Jewish visual culture is an amplification of Jewish verbal culture.