“Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” Deuteronomy 19:21
By Rebbetzin Shuli Liss
“Put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and its cattle to the sword. Doom it all and all that is in it to destruction: ...and burn the town” Deuteronomy 13:16-17
By Rabbi Danny Rich
“Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan” Deuteronomy 3:23
By Rabbi Kathleen Middleton
“When all the warriors among the people had died off, Hashem spoke to me” Deuteronomy 2:16-17
By Rabbi Daniel Silverstein
“Among the cities you shall give to the Levites, shall be six cities of refuge, which you shall provide [as places] to which a murderer can flee” Numbers 35:6
“Let the Eternal God, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone over the community” Numbers 27:16
God happened upon Balaam, who stated, ‘I have set up the seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each’” Numbers 23:4
By Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg
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“You shall not lead this congregation into the land that I have given them” Numbers 20:12
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“And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face” Numbers 16:4
“The people who inhabit the land are mighty, and the cities are extremely huge and fortified” Numbers 13:28
“We remember the fish we used to eat free in Egypt - the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions and the garlic” Numbers 11:6
“The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nachshon the son of Aminadav of the tribe of Judah” Numbers 7:12
“Take a census of the whole Israelite community” Numbers 1:2
“And I will grant peace in the Land, and you will lie down untroubled by anyone; I will remove wild beasts from the Land, and no sword will pass through your land| Leviticus 26:6
“You shall keep My Sabbaths” Leviticus 26:2
“No person of your offspring throughout the ages who has a defect shall {be qualified to} offer food to his God”
