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Parasha Korach (Korah): Learning from Korah’s Rebellion

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Three groups expressed discontentment with the leadership of Moses and Aaron: Korach (a Levite), Dathan and Abiram (from the tribe of Reuven), and 250 Israelite leaders who were appointed members of the council. In the end, God vindicated Moses and Aaron and severely punished those who joined the rebellion by swallowing them up into the earth. It was as if God had created a small earthquake to end strife in the community.

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Will Dividing Jerusalem Bring Peace to the Middle East?

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Last week, at the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that Israel and Palestine must share Jerusalem “as part of any two state agreement.” According to end-time prophecy, Jerusalem will play a major role in the last days (Zechariah 12:10, 14:10–11; Isaiah 62:1–3; Joel 3:20, etc.). It should come as no surprise then that Jerusalem’s role as the capital of Israel remains in dispute despite more than 650 direct references to Jerusalem in the ancient Hebrew Bible, from which comes your translation today.

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Parasha Naso (Lift up): Can a Holy God Be Jealous?

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This Parasha models community living, especially in regard to serving the Lord. When we live and work together in community, and everyone has their own assigned tasks so that each carries part of the load, the burden does not fall too heavily on a few key individuals. This is the ideal behind the communal lifestyle of the Israeli kibbutz movement. It's also the lifestyle of the early kehillah – the early community of Believers.

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Parasha Bamidbar (In the Wilderness): Does God Ordain Suffering?

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The Haftarah (prophetic portion) promises that God will allure Israel, bring her back to the Land, and that the relationship between God and Israel would be, once again, like a healthy marriage. To understand the themes of marriage, betrayal and redemption in Hosea, we must understand Hosea’s situation. God instructed him to take a harlot for a wife—a woman who was seemingly destined to be unfaithful to him. The rabbis, in fact, believe that Hosea’s resulting domestic tragedy was actually ordained by God

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