Flags and Tribes

Flags and Tribes

ByRabbi Becher

This Shabbos we will be continuing reading about the various tribes, their duties, their encampment, flags and donations to the Mishkan.  This division into tribes was also seen earlier at the crossing of the Red Sea, where G-d took the unified waters of the sea and split them into multiple parts to create paths, one…

Question: What is the Jewish Calendar? Answer: Its Complicated

Question: What is the Jewish Calendar? Answer: Its Complicated

ByRabbi Becher

Measuring and marking the passage of time is a universal human preoccupation. At least forty different calendars are in use around the world today.  The most widely used systems are the solar calendar, based on the cycle of the sun, and the lunar calendar, based on the cycle of the moon.  Because of its orbit…

Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – In Memory of my Mother – Parshat Nasso 5779

ByRabbi Becher

In this week’s parsha, G-d commands the priests to bless the Jewish people. Jewish parents then took this blessing for themselves and used it to bless their children every Friday night. On the anniversary of the death (Yahrzeit) of his mother, Trudy Becher alov hashalom, Rabbi Becher looks at the blessing that a parent gives…