This parashat hashavua, this Torah reading of the week, chronicles a time of terrible crisis for our people. The leaders we rely on are disappearing; the path is lost in a cloud of doubt and fear; the G*d of justice feels very far away. The relevance of parashat Hukkat is profound and somewhat unnervingContinue reading “Shabbat Hukkat: I Have Seen Outrage”
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Shabbat Hukkat: The World in a Word
This week’s parashah is called Hukkat, a word that can be translated as “statute,” “ordinance,”, or, simply, “law.” We often find it as half of the hendiadys hukkim umishpatim, which you might have seen translated as “laws and ordinances” or some such. Of course, one of the basic rules for Torah study is that there isContinue reading “Shabbat Hukkat: The World in a Word”
Shabbat Hukkat: Where Anger Will Get You
This week we read beginning from Numbers 20 verse 7, in parashat Hukkat, as we continue in this second year of our Triennial Cycle to start not at the beginning of each parashah, but at the beginning of the middle third of it. We begin with a simple story, nothing out of the ordinary: the IsraelitesContinue reading “Shabbat Hukkat: Where Anger Will Get You”
Torah for the 21st Century by Rabbi Ariel Stone 