In light of the contents of Numbers Chapter 28, which deals with the Hebrew calendar of public sacrifices, I think the time is ripe to have a quick review of the animal sacrifices and their purposes. So let’s get started! First, there are four types of animal sacrifices as follows: -The OLAH; the Burnt Offering […]

Today we begin Numbers Chapter 28. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. Chapter 28 (and chapter 29 too actually) focus on the Hebrew calendar of public sacrifices. For example, just as my country (the United States) has a separate calendar for the school year, the fiscal year […]

“Moshe did as Adonai had ordered him. He took Y’hoshua, put him before El‘azar the cohen and the whole community, laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Adonai had said through Moshe.”-Numbers 27:22-23 The new leader to succeed Moses has been chosen! And his name is Joshua! Let’s take a look at what […]

“Adonai said to Moshe, “Climb this mountain in the ‘Avarim Range, and look out at the land which I have given the people of Israel.  After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, just as Aharon your brother was gathered; because in the Tzin Desert, when the community was disputing […]

Today I want to deal with the thorny question of what happened when a Hebrew female who had received her father’s inheritance because he didn’t have any sons married a non-Israelite or a foreigner. The first thing you need to know is that daughters were provided for differently than sons. When a father married off […]