RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:TOP REVIEW FROM NEW YORK CITY:PARASHAT MASEI

RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TOP REVIEW FROM NEW YORK CITY:  PARASHAT MASEI

Dear Chaverim:

 

From a chapter in my second book, a kind review in NY City...well Staten Island, but at least it isn't just Bayonne, NJ. Lol. See bottom para. And its picked up by the AP.

 

We have been getting 5 out of 5 star reviews nationally and internationally, including Israel, and from many rabbis, but this was the first from the 5 Burroughs. Israel publishes my weekly Torah classes and it also publishes my weekly Jewish Spiritual Renewal classes taught to Hebrew College in the burbs of Boston, MA.

 

New Yorkers have so much Judaism to chose from, and every rabbi is writing a d'var Torah, that for this writer to say mine was the best on this week's parasha, in NY , is another of God's miracles, that we, as King David has taught us,  should be thanking Him for a minimum of 100 times a day.

 

NY City; if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere: top review in NY City!!

 

Shabbat Shalom and Many Blessings,

Rabbi Arthur Segal

Hilton Head Island, SC

Bluffton, SC

 

 

 

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Parsha of the week

Posted by Leslie Palma-Simoncek August 01, 2008 3:09PM

Associated Press:This week's Torah portion finishes the Book of Numbers. Next week, it's on to Deuteronomy and the saddest day in the Jewish year, Tisha B'av.

It's become clear during my weekly reading of the Parsha of the Week in the Torah that I don't understand the Tanach  even a little. Once, when I was trying to prepare for a job interview at a financial publication (before the Advance saved my life -- and I mean that), my friend Kim and I tried to read a story in the business section of the Sunday New York Times. We didn't get it. I get this week's Torah portion even less. Is there anyone who can recommend a good Torah commentary for me?

Anyway, this week we have Masei, the end of the Book of Numbers, 33:1-36:13. It begins with a list of the places the Israelites camped when they left Egypt and moves into a disturbing part where God tells them that when they cross the Jordan, they must "drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures and molten images, and demolish all their high places. You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land as your property." Are these words -- and the verses that follow that delineate the borders of Israel -- the very words still causing all the trouble? Anyone?

About the most insightful essay I could find on Masei  was written this week by Rabbi Arthur Segal and can be found here. It's long but worth sticking with, IMHO, as they say.[In My Humble Opinion]

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