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Parshat Balak 5774 At the end of this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Balak we find the Israelites encamped at Shittin.  There the men are tempted – you might say propositioned — by the Moabite women.  In what scholars believe may have been part of the cult of Baal Peor, the Israelite men and Moabite women […]

Sha-Bark in the Park This year, studying the books of I and II Samuel, we have repeatedly encountered phrases that insult people by likening them to a dog.   As pet owners, it is clear that these derogatory comments can only be explained as ignorance.  And that is exactly what it was.   During the biblical […]