“Single out Joshua, son of Nun, a man in whom there is spirit [ruach], and lay your hand upon him” Numbers 27:18
By Rabbi Daniella Kolodny
“If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God… so stay the night, so I can discover what the Lord will say to me” Numbers 22:18-19
By Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton
“So Moses made a viper of copper” Numbers 12:1
By Rabbi Joseph Dweck
“The staff of the man whom I will choose will blossom, and I will cause to cease from Myself the complaints of the children of Israel which they are complaining against you” Numbers 17:20
By Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers
“A land which devours its inhabitants” Numbers 13:32
By Rabbi Joseph Wolfson
“We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, the watermelons, the green leeks, the onions and the garlic” Numbers 11:5
“The priest shall write these curses in a scroll, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness” Bemidbar 5:23
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“Take up the head-count of the entire community of the Children of Israel… according to the number of their names” Numbers 1:2
And if you shall say: ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year? Behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase’; then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year” Leviticus 25:20-21
“And you shall not desecrate My holy name, and I will be sanctified among the children of Israel, I am the Lord who sanctifies you” Leviticus 22:32
“And this shall be a law to you for all time: in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month you shall practise self-denial [ta’anu]; you shall do no manner of work, neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you” Leviticus 16:29
“And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people” Leviticus 9:23
"This is the law of the meal offering… a satisfying aroma — a memorial portion unto God” Leviticus 6:7-8