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View in browser Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future Parshat Chukat-Balak 5783 Download the newest edition of the YUTorah in Print for Parshat Chukat and YUTorah in Print for Parshat Balak with 20 pages of recently uploaded Torah articles to print out for your Shabbat table. Learn about the Parsha Topics from Chukat • Aharon's Death • Halacha on Chukat • Moshe's Sin • Overview of the Parsha • Parah Adumah and Chet Haegel • The Battle with Og • The Hitting of the Rock • The Song at Arnon • The War with Sichon • Tumat Kohanim Topics from Balak • Bilaam and the Three Regalim • Bilaam the Prophet • Bilaam's Donkey • Bilaam's Eye • Bilaam's Praise of the Jewish People • Pinchas's Zealotry • The Sin with the Women of Moav • Why Was Hashem Angry with Bilaam The Parah Adumah Learn the basics of Mishnayot Parah and the process of removing Tumat Meit. Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim Taamei Hamitzvot Do all mitzvot need to have reasons and make sense? Or are some chukim just meant to stay hidden? Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim The Copper Snake How did Moshe know to make the snake out of copper? And what does that whole story mean in the first place?!? Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim Vigilante Justice What does Halacha say about taking the law into your own hands? Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim Ma Tovu Ohalecha Yaakov Learn the halacha and lessons behind this timeless statements from the unlikeliest of sources. Browse the Shiurim Browse the Shiurim New This Week Recent Shiurim on Chukat- Balak • Rabbi Yaakov Abramovitz: Do the Bodies of Tzadkim Transmit Tumah? • Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh: Stop and Think • Rabbi Tzvi Benoff: Adding Kedushah in Sefer Bamidbar • Rabbi Sammy Bergman: Hashem Doesn't See Our Sins • Rabbi Yisroel Bloom: Living with Emunah • Rabbi Chaim Brovender: Bilaam the Prophet • Rabbi Tanchum Cohen: The Power of Sometimes Not Knowing • Rabbi Avishai David: The Charisma and Ominous Power of Bracha and Klala • Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom: The Decree Against Moshe Revisited • Rabbi Joel Finkelstein: Pray For Me • Rabbi Yonatan Shai Freedman: Balak's Interest in Even a Curse that won't Work from Bilaam • Rabbi Dr. Chesky Gewirtz: Lessons from Be'er Miriam • Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith: Afraid of Yisrael? • Rabbi Meir Goldwicht: אמת ואמונה ומה שבניהם • Rabbi Alan Haber: Am Levadad • Rabbi Ari Kahn: Appointment and Disappointment • Mrs. Emma Katz: Red: Sin, Anger, and Purity? • Rabbi Shaya Katz: Making Our Mistakes Meaningful • Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz​​​​​​​: The Dangers and Benefits of Transitional Periods • Rabbi Aaron Leibtag: The Nachash and the New Generation • Rabbi Yoni Mandelstam: Selling a Shul in Halacha • Rabbi Yoni Miller: Being Unhappy with Hashem • Rabbi Yoni Mozeson: The Jew Hater's Fatal Flaw • Rabbi Moshe Poleyeff: Don't Forget the Mitzaveh • Rabbi Shay Schachter: Our Communal Aspiration to Ride On Top of the Donkey • Mrs. Shira Smiles: Pursuing Peace • Rabbi Jonah Steinmetz: Be MORE Judgmental • Rabbi Avraham Willig: If Your'e Sinning It's Because Of This • Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: What Would the Impact of the Curses have been if Bilaam Succeeded? Recent Articles on Chukat • Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein: The Gezeirah Prohibiting Moshe Rabbeinu from Entering Eretz Yisrael • Dr. Erica Brown: Have a Little Faith • Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald: How to Market G-d! • Rabbi Norman Lamm: Spiritual Leadership: The Moral Risks • Rabbi Hershel Reichman: Our Brother Eisav • Rabbi Johnny Solomon: When the Para Aduma was Misunderstood • Rabbi Moshe Taragin: Is Religion Rational? • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner : In and Out of the Zone • Rabbi Simon Wolf : Sprinkling Hope and Revival Recent Articles on Balak • Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein: How Midrash in One Pasuk Can Be Based on Pshat in Another Pasuk • Dr. Erica Brown: What the Eye Can't See • Mrs. Michal Horowitz: Blessing from Curse • Rabbi Hershel Reichman: Opposition to the Jews • Rabbi Johnny Solomon: Bilam's Fear of Success • Rabbi Moshe Taragin: The "Keini" Challenge Visit our website | Make a Gift 212.960.5263 | cjf@yu.edu Manage My Subscriptions Manage My Subscriptions Center for the Jewish Future 500 West 185th Street, Furst Hall 419 New York, NY 10033 Unsubscribe