The passage about a beautiful woman taken captive in war, as interpreted by the Sages, is an instance of having to choose between two undesirable alternatives

In this week's reading the Holy One, blessed be He, instructs Moses, "You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes

When the Israelites reached Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, in the month of Nisan in the fortieth year

And this land we inherited at that time: from Aroer along the wadi Arnon, with the hill country of Gilead and its town,

Chapter 30 of Numbers deals with annulling vows taken by a daughter in her father’s house or a woman in her husband’s house and raises the question of the status of women in general

The sins of the Israelites during their trek through the wilderness can be divided into two periods:

The opening verse of this week's reading presents a well-known difficulty: "Now Korach…took [Heb. va-yikah], along with Dathan and Abiram

Is being a Nazir viewed in a positive or negative light? Here we present several approaches to this well-known question

On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt,

Our haftarah, the very beginning of the second section of Scripture (the Prophets), tells of the beginning of Joshua’s career as leader of the Jewish people