“The Israelites arrived in a body at the wilderness of Zin on the first new moon, and the people stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died there and was buried there” Numbers 20:1
By Rabbi Neil Janes
“Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men” Numbers 16:1
By Rabbi Dr Samuel Lebens
“And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried: and the people wept that night” Numbers 14:1
By Rebbetzin Ilana Epstein
“And Moses cried out to the Eternal One, ‘God please heal her” Numbers 12:13
By Rabbi Lea Muhlstein
"Speak to Aaron and his sons, and tell them that this is how you are to bless the people of Israel: you are to say to them” Numbers 6:23
By Rabbi Chanan Atlas
“Assuredly, I will speak tenderly to her and lead her through the wilderness and speak tenderly to her” Hosea 2:16
“And I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land” Leviticus 26:42
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“The son of the Israelite woman pronounced the Name in blasphemy, and he was brought to Moses. Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan” Leviticus 24:10-11
“Thus the goat shall carry on it all their iniquities to an inaccessible region; and the goat shall be set free in the wilderness” Leviticus 16:22
“And you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanliness (tumah), so that they will not die on account of their uncleanliness, lest they defile My sanctuary which is in their midst” Leviticus 15:31
“And Aaron was silent” Leviticus 10:3
'Three times in the year, every one of your men shall be seen before the Lord, your God, in the place that He will choose: on the Festival of Matzot and on the Festival of Shavuot and on the Festival of Succot, and he shall not be seen before the Lord empty-handed' Deuteronomy 16:16
“You shall observe this as an institution for all time, for you and for your descendants. And when you enter the land that the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite” Exodus 12:24-25
“Anything that touches these [offerings by fire] shall become holy” Leviticus 6:11
“For you shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire” Leviticus 2:11
By Rabbi Chana Atlas
“The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to the Lord; every man and woman” Exodus 35:2