Bamidbar - Shelach (Numbers 13:1–15:41)

Bamidbar - Shelach (Numbers 13:1–15:41)

All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠⁠⁠⁠Here⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.chabad.org/parshah/default_cdo/jewish/Torah-Portion.htm]. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.chabad.org/tools/donate/donate_cdo/aid/161548/sc/t6198/jewish/Donate.htm] to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! Bamidbar Shelach (Numbers 13:1–15:41) Twelve scouts tour Canaan and return with a split vision: a land flowing with goodness, yet “giants” and fortified cities. Fear spreads; the people weep and rebel, yearning for Egypt. Caleb and Joshua insist, “We can surely ascend,” but the community chooses despair. God decrees forty years of wandering—one year per day scouted—so the fearful generation will pass, though He stays with Israel. A rash attempt to storm the hills without divine backing ends in defeat. Laws about offerings, first dough (challah), and atonement for unintentional sins re-center life around hope and practice, while a willful violator is punished. The portion closes with tzitzit—fringes to “remember and do all My commandments”—a daily antidote to the eyes’ misdirection. Themes to listen for: perception vs. reality, the cost of collective fear, and habits that anchor courage.

Bamidbar - Beha'alotecha (Numbers 8:1–12:16)

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Bamidbar - Nasso (Numbers 4:21–7:89)

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Bamidbar - Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1–4:20)

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Vayikra - Behar (Leviticus 25:1–26:2)

All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠⁠⁠Here⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.chabad.org/parshah/default_cdo/jewish/Torah-Portion.htm]. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.chabad.org/tools/donate/donate_cdo/aid/161548/sc/t6198/jewish/Donate.htm] to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! Vayikra Behar (Leviticus 25:1–26:2) From Sinai come laws of the land’s rest: the sabbatical year (shemittah) every seventh year and the Jubilee (yovel) every fiftieth, when land reverts to ancestral families and indentured Israelites go free. Sales are priced by harvest years remaining; exploitation and interest are banned; kin-redeemers help restore property and dignity. Even when poverty strikes, “your brother” is to be supported so he can live beside you. Slavery is limited and humanized for Israelites—“they are My servants”—and strangers are treated justly. The section closes by tying it all back: no idols, revere the sanctuary, keep the Sabbaths. Themes to listen for: economic reset as holiness, time healing inequality, land as God’s, and compassion as policy.