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12 Jun 2020
Torah Portion: Numbers 4:21-7:89 Naso (‘To raise up’) This is the 35th of the 54 Torah portions, and is the longest, having 8,632 Hebrew letters, 2,264 Hebrew words, 176 verses, and 311 lines in a Torah scroll. Like all of the portions (parashot) it contains many themes one could choose…
05 Jun 2020
A selection of the week's happenings to aid your prayers
05 Jun 2020
Torah Portion: Exodus 19:1-20:23, Numbers 28:26-31 Shavuot (‘Weeks’) Shavuot, ‘Weeks’, is celebrated seven weeks after Passover and is the second major ‘pilgrimage’ feast, when the people of Israel were commanded to gather before the Lord with their offerings (in Greek it is called ‘Pentecost’, meaning ‘fiftieth’ – a reference to…
29 May 2020
A selection of the week's happenings to aid your prayers
29 May 2020
Torah Portion: Numbers 1:1-4:20 B'midbar (בַּמִּדְבָּר) (‘In the desert’) B'midbar is the fifth word of the Book of Numbers and also the Hebrew title of the Book of Numbers. What a completely amazing choice that God should bring his people out of a land of slavery and into a barren,…
22 May 2020
A selection of the week's happenings to aid your prayers
22 May 2020
Torah Portions: Leviticus 25:1-27:34 Behar / Bechukotai ('On the mountain' / 'In My statutes') Who is the owner of the place where you live? Did you buy the property? Or is it leased for a period? Maybe it is rented, where someone else owns the property, but you can use…
15 May 2020
Torah Portion: Leviticus 21:1-24:23 Emor (‘Speak’) ‘Social distancing’. A term that was unfamiliar to us at the beginning of 2020 has, in just a few short weeks, become an overriding factor in our actions and attitudes. History shows us that ‘social distancing’ was not always an unknown. The even more…
