In this week's reading, G-d explains to Moshe how his successors will be chosen. Hashem Himself will choose the leader, "who will go out in front of them, and who will come in before them, and they will go out and come in, and the congregation of G-d will not be like...

A guest who had traveled from afar once visited the saintly Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan zt"l, and was taken aback by the Rabbi's simple living conditions. The home was lacking the most basic furnishings! When he relayed his surprise, the Chofetz Chaim...

In the Torah portion this week, we read "This is the Torah: when a person dies in a tent..." [Numbers 19:14] The language is somewhat unusual, because although "Torah" simply means law or instruction, you would expect it to say "this is the law regarding a person" or...

In the story of Korach's rebellion (Numbers 16-17), 250 men join the campaign against Moses. While Korach and his partners Dathan and Abiram are punished with the earth miraculously swallowing them alive, the 250 men meet a different, more honorable fate. While...

This week, we read about the spies sent to look at the Land of Cana'an, who came back with a bad report -- the land is filled with giants, they said, and even if we were to somehow beat them, the land consumes its inhabitants! Only two of the spies came back ready to...

Linus, of Peanuts comic strip fame, sits down for a bowl of cereal. After pouring the milk he runs off to find a book to enjoy with his cereal. First he looks for the sports section of the paper or the comics, but he can't find either. He nervously scans the...