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The sages of the Talmud grappled with this very emotion, particularly in the context of marriage and fidelity. And surprisingly, the Torah has a lot to say about it. to an intrigui...
The Torah (Numbers 5:17) instructs the priest to take "sacred water in an earthenware vessel, and from the dirt that is on the floor of the Tabernacle...place it into the water." B...
to a fascinating, and frankly, a little disturbing, passage from Bamidbar Rabbah (Numbers Rabbah) 9 that explores exactly that. We're going to unpack the strange case of the sotah,...
Take, for instance, the ritual of the sotah, the suspected adulteress, described in the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar). It’s… complicated. The priest writes curses on a scroll and then...
It’s a truly bizarre episode, filled with sacred oaths, dissolved scrolls, and the threat of divine retribution. to one particular passage, Bamidbar Rabbah 9, and unpack some of it...
There’s a fascinating teaching attributed to Rabbi Meir in Bamidbar Rabbah 9 that gets right to the heart of it. He asks, how do we know that the way we treat others is the very sa...
The verse sets the scene: "The man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering on her behalf, one-tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil u...
We're looking at Chapter 9, specifically dealing with the ritual of the sotah, the suspected adulteress. It's a wild ride, full of symbolic actions and high stakes. The verse we're...
to a really intense, and frankly, kind of disturbing ritual described in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 5. It involves a woman suspected of adultery, and... well, let's just say it i...
