Guest Columnists

How can we feel better about the reality we have been given and learn to meet life's challenges with joy?

Is this distinct from the “Covenant of Priesthood” mentioned in the subsequent verse?

You see, religious life is thankfully full of high-voltage, electric moments. Such moments are indeed important, and it’s safe to say that no person, no matter how pious or devout, could survive without them. The problem is that such moments are not constant.

What happens in a situation where a person has income but is in a physical or mental state that renders him unable to fulfill his charitable obligations? Is he exempt from being charitable, or must others contribute from his resources on his behalf?

Although Moses is not completely reconciled to his death in the desert (as we will see later in the Parshah of Va’etchanan), he can not leave the world in peace without knowing that his people will be in good hands.

Pairs of lots—one from each box—were drawn. A Temple priest was there to prophesy each pick. To top it off, the lottery tickets themselves miraculously announced each pairing of a tribe with its portion of land.

The Torah’s account of the petition presented to Moses by the daughters of Tzelafchad is relevant both to women seeking halachic support for change, and to the rabbis who are ruling on their questions.

Moses sought to mitigate G‑d’s anger against Israel through prayer. In contrast, Pinchas’s action took place not in the supernal realms, but rather “below,” in the physical world.

Confronted with Phinehas' heroism, the people felt challenged: Why hadn't any of them stepped up as Phinehas had? Why hadn't they objected and acted with bravery?

Leadership is one of those qualities that, as soon as a person begins describing his or her own mastery of it, you can’t help but feel that in fact they don’t have it . . .

What does it mean to have a good life, a successful life? How do we handle life when it doesn’t bring us everything we hoped for?

“Why should our father’s name be eliminated from his family because he had no sons? Give us a landholding among our father’s brothers!”

The very purpose of negativity is for us to change it. We change “it,” however, when we change ourselves.

Phinehas was brazenly zealous when he slayed Zimri, the licentious leader of the tribe of Simeon.