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Todah Rabah!

Matot / Mas’ei

End of Bamidbar

Double portion this Shabbat

Share the strength – Chazak!

Pinchas

Pinchas the zealot

G-d rewards his violence

Difficult lesson

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Chukat / Balak

When Miriam dies

The people have no water

Trouble for Moses

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Korach

Even post  Korach

The people complain to G-d

A plague kills thousands

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Moses and Aaron

Have to ask  G-d, once again

Not to kill them all

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Sh’lach L’cha

A disturbing tale:

On Shabbat, the people see

Man gathering sticks

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G-d informs Moses

That the whole community

Should stone him to death

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And so it was done

Just as G-d had commanded

A fair punishment?

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B’haalot’cha

Levite pension plan

Had better be good, ’cause they

Retire at fifty

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Naso

The Nazarite vow

No wine, haircuts, grapes, raisins

Just service to G-d

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Shavuot

Omer counting? Done!

Celebrate revelation

It’s Matan Torah*

[* Giving of Torah]

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Bamidbar

The census results?

Six hundred three thousand plus

Five hundred fifty

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This included just

Men twenty years or older

All fit for service

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