Balak
Numbers 22:2-25:9
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Text Studies
Which Is Mightier--The Word Or The Sword?
Provided by Hillel?s Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Learning, which creates educational resources for Jewish organizations on college campuses.
Not Seeing Is The Sin by Rabbi Neal Joseph Loevinger
Provided by KOLEL--The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning, which is affiliated with Canada's Reform movement.
Quiz
Parashat Balak
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Commentaries
The Gift of Speech by Adina Gerver
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The Nature of Bilaam's Prophecy by Ilana Stein
Provided by Canfei Nesharim, providing Torah wisdom about the importance of protecting our environment.
No & Maybe by Evan Wolkenstein
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Distance and Proximity by Julia Appell
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Bilaam Versus Pinhas by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky
Provided by the Jewish Outreach Institute, an organization dedicated to creating a more open and welcoming Judaism.
Instructed To Curse, Inspired To Bless by Reuven Kimelman
Provided by CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, a multi-denominational think tank and resource center.
The Place From Which We Pray by Rabbi Aaron Gruman
Provided by the Orthodox Union, the central coordinating agency for North American Orthodox congregations.
Seeing Their Faces But Not Their Doors: Housing, Homelessness And Dignity by Alana Suskin
Provided by SocialAction.com, an on-line Jewish magazine dedicated to pursuing justice, building community, and repairing the world.
No Rest(s) For The Wicked by Rabbi Laurence Edwards
Provided by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in North America.
Spirit Strength, by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch
Provided by the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Conservative rabbinical seminary and university of Jewish studies.
