Bamidbar

From The Times Colonist Spiritually Speaking column. I contribute an article twice yearly. This column was printed a week early, so I am including it here for this week.

This week in our annual cycle of Torah readings we open the Book of B’midbar, or Numbers. B’midbar means “In the wilderness,” referencing that 40 years as the Israelites made their eventual return to the Land of their ancestors. This is a land of between’ness, a land that shelters the people between their leaving Egypt, enslavement, and the land of their homecoming, eretz Yisroel.More