Author: Rabbi Elchanan Shoff These are the travels of the Jewish people. Bamidbar 33:1 The places where the Jewish people encamped are called their “travels.” Rashi, elsewhere in his commentary to the Torah[1], wonders why this is. He explains that since the Jewish people always departed on
Read more →Towards the end of the Parsha, the Torah speaks at length about the cities of refuge; areas that are set aside for unintentional murderers. If a person carelessly causes the death of a fellow Jew then he is in severe danger of being killed by relatives of
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