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This week’s Torah reading is the commencement of the book of Numbers (as it is called in English – in Hebrew it is Bamidbar, “In the Desert”). The passages really are full of numbers. Leviticus ...

The very name of the biblical Book of Numbers, which we begin reading this week, is the tip of a very problematic iceberg. You see, it is called the Book of Numbers because it begins with – well, you ...