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Parashat Emor: CommentaryOur פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) wonder: why is Shabbat included in the list of the moadim (holidays)?
Parashat Emor: CommentaryOur פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) wondered the meaning of the phrase לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל־דַּם רֵעֶךָ (do not stand upon your neighbor’s blood). What exactly is being commanded?
Hadar Institute•134 Views•May 3, 2023•Commentaries,Sefirat HaOmer,Emor,Omer,Devash,Parashat Emor,Omer Offering
Parashat Emor: CommentaryWhy does the Torah interrupt the list of holidays to talk about making sure people who are poor can collect food from the harvest?
Hadar Institute•24 Views•May 3, 2024•Mitzvot,Parashat Emor,Gifts to the Poor,Emor,Commentaries,Orphans
Parashat Behaalotkha: CommentaryWhen Benei Yisrael complain about the food they eat in the desert, they remember the food they ate in Egypt with nostalgia. But as slaves, did they really eat fish for free? Was life in Egypt that good?
Parashat Naso: CommentaryThe end of our Parashat Naso gets super repetitive. All 12 נְשִׂיאִים, chiefs, bring the same offerings to the Mishkan. Why does the Torah repeat each offering, word for word, when they’re all the same?!
Hadar Institute•6 Views•May 14, 2024•Nasi,Devash,Tribal Chieftains' Offerings,Naso,Commentaries,Nasso
Parashat Naso: CommentaryThe offerings of the נְשִׂיאִים (nesi’im, chiefs) come in sets of 12. But there are only six wagons to carry them all. Why’s that? What can it teach us?
Hadar Institute•5 Views•May 14, 2024•Nasi,Devash,Naso,Tribal Chieftains' Offerings,Commentaries,Nasso
Parashat Naso: CommentaryOur פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) wonder about the proestly blessings: What berakhah (blessing) are we asking for? And what’s the request for protection? Is there a connection between the blessing and the protection?
Hadar Institute•51 Views•June 9, 2023•Priestly Blessing,Commentaries,Naso,Devash,Birkat Cohanim,Nasso
Parashat Naso: CommentaryIs it good to be a nazir? Is the Torah recommending this? Explore this question through commentaries.
Hadar Institute•88 Views•June 8, 2022•Nazir,Devash,Naso,Nasso,Commentaries,Nazirite-Offerings,Holiness
Parashat Bemidbar: CommentaryWhy was the Kehat family in danger of being cut off from the Levi'im (the Levites)?
Parashat Bemidbar: CommentaryOur פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) notice a connection between two pesukim. In the first pasuk, the people, who have just suffered terrible punishments, confess their sins. So, why does God continue punishing them in the second pasuk?
Parashat Behukotai: Commentary"Keri" appears over and over again in this parashah... It’s clear that it's something bad. But what exactly does it mean here?
Parashat Behukotai: CommentaryOur פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) notice a connection between two pesukim. In the first pasuk, the people, who have just suffered terrible punishments, confess their sins. So, why does God continue punishing them in the second pasuk?
Parashat Behar: CommentaryHow can we understand what freedom is?
Parashat Behar: CommentaryWhat’s the connection between Shabbat and God’s Mikdash?
Hadar Institute•14 Views•May 7, 2024•Devash,Mishkan,Behar,Melacha,Shabbat,Commentaries,Parashat Behar
Parashat Behar: CommentaryWhat does it mean that שְׁמִטָּה (shemittah, the year of release) is a 'שַׁבָּת לַה (Shabbat la-Hashem, Shabbat for God)?
Parashat Behar: CommentaryOur פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) notice that there is a double warning about not wronging one another: אַל־תּוֹנוּ (al tonu) at the beginning, and וְלֹא תוֹנוּ (ve-lo tonu) at the end. They wonder: why does this warning appear twice?
Parashat Kedoshim: CommentaryWhat does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself? What’s the mitzvah? And how does it connect to the first half of the pasuk?
Parashat Kedoshim: CommentaryOur פַּרְשָׁנִים (parshanim, commentators) wondered the meaning of the phrase לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל־דַּם רֵעֶךָ (do not stand upon your neighbor’s blood). What exactly is being commanded?
Hadar Institute•303 Views•May 2, 2022•Witnesses,Mitzvot,Commentaries,Kedoshim,Parashat Kedoshim,Bystander
Parashat Kedoshim: CommentaryOur parashah emphasizes some ways that farmers should make it possible for people who are poor to collect food from their fields. Why does verse that teaches this mention God?
Parashat Kedoshim: CommentaryWhat’s wrong with trying to get back at someone who hurts you?
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