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#shelach #shlach #shlachlech #shelachlech #numbers #bamidbar #mygarden #thespies #wordshavewings #dvartorah #thejoyofgardening #mymessygarden Hello! Parshat Sh'lach is a consequential parsha; one from which there is no return. Although the parsha speaks about tzitzit, the idea of taking challah and concludes with the strange story of the Sabbath wood gatherer, it is the story of the scouts or sometimes referred to as the spies that changes the trajectory of our story. In the

#naso #nazir #bracha #blessings #blessing #birkathakohanim #sotah #bamidbar #bookofnumbers #parshapoetry #wordshavewings This week, in the strange Parshat Naso, we read about the Sotah and the Nazir and then the parsha concludes, as though with an afterthought, with the immensely important priestly blessing. יְבָרֶכְךָ֥ יְהֹוָ֖ה וְיִשְׁמְרֶֽךָ׃ {ס} יָאֵ֨ר יְהֹוָ֧ה ׀ פָּנָ֛יו אֵלֶ֖יךָ וִֽיחֻנֶּֽךָּ׃ {ס} יִשָּׂ֨א יְהֹוָ֤ה ׀ פָּנָיו֙ אֵלֶ֔יךָ וְיָשֵׂ֥ם לְךָ֖ שָׁל

#bamidbar #numbers #bookofnumbers #bladeofgrass #bladesofgrass #census #wordshavewings #torahstudy #poetry Hi Everyone, I came up with this idea of blades of grass while walking the dog this week and noticing people's lawns. Parshat Bamidbar begins with a military census of males over twenty years old. The tribes are listed by the names of the sons of Jacob and includes large numbers, that lead to a total of approximately 603,000. Of this huge number, almost everyone rema

#parshatchukat #chukat #seferbamidbar #bamidbar #bookofnumbers #aaron #moses #miriam #aaronsdeath #miriamsdeath #parshathashavua...

#nazir #sotah #parshatnasso #seferbamidbar #bamidbar #hair #longhair #vows #vowsandpromises #wine #nowine #willpower #deprivation...

#bamidbar #counting #thecount #census #thecountingparsha #seferbamidbar #numbers #bookofnumbers #thebookofnumbers #chumash...

#shelach #shlach #billbuckner #mistakes #thespies #thescouts #Bamidbar #bostonredsox #curseofthebambino #1986metsandbostonredsox...

#behaalotecha #bamidbar #wordshavewings #torahpoetry Parshat B'haalotecha is not a parsha to hastily skim over as there are so many...

#bamidbar Please note that this post comes after Parshat BaMidbar, but before Shavuot. Let's call it an island between the two! Parshat...

#gershonites #merarites #bamidbar #parshatnaso #parshatnasso #naso #nasso #templeservice #menialwork The beginning of Parshat Nasso...

#hair #sotah #nazir #Naso #parshatnaso #bamidbar #parshah #hairaspower #hairascreativity #redheads #parshapoetry #absalom Long ago, many...

#census #bamidbar #parshatBamidbar Well, the book of Vayikra is behind us for now and we find ourselves in the desert, along with the...