This week, Rabbi David Block asks an interesting question: why do the people of Israel get to go into the land of Israel? Is it because of merit? Or because it was promised to our ancestors? Or, as the text suggests, because of the evil of the other nations? In this video, we analyze these reasons given in this week's parsha and suggest that they all work together to fulfill God's mission for us - to be a model nation for the world....... More

“El Na” by “Miss” Emily Aronoff Teck Track # 11 from Good Choices, Volume 1 Inspiration Text: “El na refa na la” (Numbers 12:13), which means “G-d heal her, please,” was Moses’s brief, yet powerful, spontaneous prayer for his sister, Miriam, after she was stricken with disease....... More

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"These are the things that have no equal, where one might enjoy the fruits of them in this world, but the true reward is stored up for the world to come! [Among them are] doing acts of loving kindness (g’milut chasadim), and visiting the sick (bikkur cholim)" -Morning Prayer, based upon Mishna Peah 1:1, and Shabbat 127a As this Talmudic passage stresses, the mitzvah of bikkur cholim is central to Jewish tradition....... More