Only Aaron’s specific date of death is recorded in the Torah: “And Aaron died…in the fifth month [Av], on the first day of the month” (Numbers 33:38). We remember the deceased on the yahrzeit, the ...

Parshat Masei begins with a recap of everywhere Israel has been so far on their journey throughout the desert. And you have to ask: who cares? Why is this here? As we’ve discussed many times, the ...

“The children of Reuben and the children of Gad possessed much cattle, and they saw the land of Ya’zer and the land of Gilead, and behold, it was a land for pasture…. And they said [to Moshe]: ‘If we ...

wear masks and carry guns. Let us return the coldness of ice with the coldness of ice. Let us freeze it into immobility. Let crossing rivers not be a crime. Let children and their parents not be ...