Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
22 Sivan 5785
“Miriam spoke, and Aaron, against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had taken: ‘Has God spoken only through Moses? Has [God] not spoken through us as well?’ God heard it” Numbers 12:1-2
By Rabbi Miriam Lorie
“Speak to Aaron and his sons: ‘Thus (Ko) shall you bless the people of Israel.’ Say to them…” Numbers 6:23
By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor
“And the chieftan of the Simeonites was Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai” Numbers 2:12
By Rabbi Natasha Mann
“Then shall the land be paid be paid her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate and your are in your enemies’ land: even then shall the land rest and repay her Sabbaths” Leviticus 26:34
By Rabbi Benjy Morgan
“You shall count seven weeks from the day after the ‘sabbath’ on which you bring an omer of grain as a wave-offering – seven complete weeks. You shall count to the day after the seventh week, making fifty days” Leviticus 23:15-16
By Rabbi Paul Freedman
“You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” Leviticus 19:2
“Then they said to one another, ‘We are not doing right. This is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent! … Come, let us go and inform the king’s palace” 2 Kings 7:9
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“Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered before the Eternal strange fire, which God had not commanded them” Leviticus 10:1
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“Hashem caused the sea to go back with a strong east wind all that night” Exodus 14:21
“Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram’s head, and it was slaughtered. Moses took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right ear-lobe, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.” Leviticus 8:22-23
“When a person commits a trespass, being unwittingly remiss about any of God’s sacred things: They shall bring as a penalty to God a ram without blemish from the flock” Leviticus 5:15
“The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, corresponding to their names; engraved like seals, each with its name, for the twelve tribes” Exodus 39:14
“And everyone who excelled in ability and everyone whose spirit was moved came, bringing to the Lord an offering for the labour of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the sacral vestments” Exodus 35:21
“And he saw … and he threw the tablets from his hands shattering them” Exodus 32:19
“And they shall know that I the Eternal am their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them — I, the Eternal, their God” Exodus 29:44
“And the priest Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in its lid… and the priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought into the House of God” 2 Kings 12:10
