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Qorah: Human Rights for Heavens Sake
The dramatic story of the rebellion against Moses and Aaron in the desert that appears in this week’s Torah reading became a significant symbol in the teachings of the rabbinic sages. The saying from Pirkei Avot (Chpt. 5, 17) is well known:
A controversy for Heaven’s sake will have lasting value, but a controversy not for [...]
Previous Stories
- BeMidbar: Human Rights and The Triumph of God’s Hope
- Emor: Promise, Justice, Non-violence, and Peace
- Noah: Righteousness in Our Generation
- Dvar Torah - The Value of Peace As a Religious Goal
- Dvar Torah – B’Haalotkha
- Happy are they who maintain justice, and do righteousness at all times
- Truth and Hypocrisy
- Ki Tisa: Love, Justice and Righteousness
- Ki Tavo: Human Rights and a social order that is based on justice, compassion and human rights for all
- Principles of Faith
- Va-EtHannan: Human Rights in the places we do not go
- Tisha Bav: Justice, Law and Righteousness
- Shabbat Hazon: What we must do to improve our situation
- Devarim: Act with tzedakah and mishpat in all that we do
- Pinehas: Fanaticism and peace between man and his neighbor and between the nation and God.
- Insecurity: When the bearers of democracy lose it for the sake of security
- Shavuot: A world based on righteousness, justice, goodness, mercy and faithfulness.
- Bemidbar: Reaching out to the ones we would normally turn away
- Mas’e: Expulsion, Democracy and Civil Disobedience
- Tazria: A single soul
- Preventing Home Demolitions
- Who We Are
