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Parashah of the week: Ekev

“You shall cut away the thickening of your hearts and stiffen your necks no more” Deuteronomy 10:16

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

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Jacob's dream: José de Ribera, 1639 (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Va’etchanan

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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Moses, by James Tissot (1836-1902, from the Jewish Museum, New York)

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Parashah of the week: Mattot-Massei

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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Parashah of the week: Korach

“And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague had stopped” Bemidbar 17:15

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

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Botticelli's The Punishment of Korah (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Shelach Lecha

“We saw the Nephilim there – the Anakites are part of the Nephilim – and we looked like mere grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them” Numbers 13:33

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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Monkey grasshoppers (Sharp Photography/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Beha’alotecha

“Miriam spoke, and Aaron, against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had taken: ‘Has God spoken only through Moses? Has [God] not spoken through us as well?’ God heard it” Numbers 12:1-2

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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Miriam, cursed with leprosy (from mid-16th century Netherlands, now in Museum Schnütgen, Cologne/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Naso

“Speak to Aaron and his sons: ‘Thus (Ko) shall you bless the people of Israel.’ Say to them…” Numbers 6:23

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

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The priestly blessing in Jerusalem (Photo: Getty Images)

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Parashah of the week: Bemidbar

“And the chieftan of the Simeonites was Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai” Numbers 2:12

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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Israelites gathering manna in the wilderness, Nicolas Poussin, c 1637 (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Behar-Bechukkotai

“Then shall the land be paid be paid her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate and your are in your enemies’ land: even then shall the land rest and repay her Sabbaths” Leviticus 26:34

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

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'The land shall have her rest' - palm grove in the Negev (photo: Getty Images)

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“You shall count seven weeks from the day after the ‘sabbath’ on which you bring an omer of grain as a wave-offering – seven complete weeks. You shall count to the day after the seventh week, making fifty days” Leviticus 23:15-16

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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Shavuot marked the wheat harvest in ancient times (photo: Getty)

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Parashah of the week: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

“You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” Leviticus 19:2

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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The Drunkards by Paul Cezanne - Nachmanides warned against excessive behaviour even when not prohibited by the Torah (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Tazria-Metzora

“Then they said to one another, ‘We are not doing right. This is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent! … Come, let us go and inform the king’s palace” 2 Kings 7:9

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

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Lepers outside the camp (A Dictionary of the Bible, Philip Schaff, 1887/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Shemini

“Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered before the Eternal strange fire, which God had not commanded them” Leviticus 10:1

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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The bodies of Nadab and Abihu are carried from the Tabernacle (James Tissot, 1836-1902/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah: Seventh Day Pesach

“Hashem caused the sea to go back with a strong east wind all that night” Exodus 14:21

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

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Crossing of the Red Sea, Sebastiaen Vrancx, late 1590s (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Tzav

“Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram’s head, and it was slaughtered. Moses took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right ear-lobe, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.” Leviticus 8:22-23

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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Smoke rises from a burnt offering (Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible Illustrations/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Vayikra

“When a person commits a trespass, being unwittingly remiss about any of God’s sacred things: They shall bring as a penalty to God a ram without blemish from the flock” Leviticus 5:15

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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V0034390 A sacrifice taking place in the tabernacle in the wilderness Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A sacrifice taking place in the tabernacle in the wilderness; the encampments of the tribes spread out to the horizon. Coloured lithograph. Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Parashah of the week: Pekudei

“The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, corresponding to their names; engraved like seals, each with its name, for the twelve tribes” Exodus 39:14

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

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The High Priest's Breastplate (image: The Temple Institute, Jerusalem)

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Parashah of the week: Vayakhel

“And everyone who excelled in ability and everyone whose spirit was moved came, bringing to the Lord an offering for the labour of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the sacral vestments” Exodus 35:21

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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Model of the Tabernacle in Israel's Timna Park (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Ki Tissa

“And he saw … and he threw the tablets from his hands shattering them” Exodus 32:19

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

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Moses with the Tablets of the Law, Rembrandt (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Naso

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Parashah of the week: Behar-Bechukkotai

Parashah of the week: Emor

Parashah of the week: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

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Parashah of the week: Vayikra

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