Volume 8 - Bamidbar

23 sichos, 6 with English text.

• Vol 8.01 - Bamidbar 1

  Counting and Matan Torah. Rashi: "Because they were dear to Him, He counted them often" (7)

• Vol 8.02 - Bamidbar 2

  Rashi: "They shall not come in to see when the holy [vessels] are being wrapped up". The three coverings of the Ark (13)

• Vol 8.03 - Chag HaShavuot

  The connection between Matan Torah to Moshe Rabbeinu, David HaMelech and the Baal Shem Tov. (8)

• Vol 8.04 - Naso 1

  Rashi: "Every offering" The necessity that the first fruits are given to the kohen (12)

• Vol 8.05 - Naso 2

  Rashi: The reason Rashi brings the hints of the Korbanot of the princes from "the writings of Rabbi Moshe Hadarshan , and not from those of the Midrash. (8)

• Vol 8.06 - Naso 3

  The innovation according to Halacha in the first Shabbat after Matan Torah over the day of Matan Torah itself (12)

• Vol 8.07 - Behaalotecha 1Links

  Rashi: "On a distant journey" - even if outside the Temple courtyard; Pesach Sheini - Chametz and Matzoh (14)

• Vol 8.08 - Behaalotecha 2

  "and I will increase the spirit that is upon you and bestow it etc" like a candle whose light is not diminished at all (7)

• Vol 8.09 - Shlach 1

  Rashi (Num.13:30): "Caleb silenced: he silenced them all". Three arguments of the Spies (12)

• Vol 8.10 - Shlach 2

  Rashi: The conjunction of the passages of the wood-gatherer to that of idolatry and Tzitzit (8)

• Vol 8.11 - Korach 1Links

  Korach asked: "Does a cloak made entirely of blue wool require tzitzit?"; Korach - controversy (12)

• Vol 8.12 - Korach 2Translated

  Connection of Korach to Gimmel Tammuz; Korach's controversy regarding the priesthood (9)

• Vol 8.13 - Chukat 1Links

  Rashi: "This is the statute of the Torah" - "Parah Adumah" (Red Heifer) and all the other statutes (11)

• Vol 8.14 - Chukat 2

  Rashi: "They smote him" - The need to explain that Moses slew Og; the connection to Yud-Beit Tammuz (7)

• Vol 8.15 - Balak 1Links

  Rashi : "Balak saw etc."; The connection to Yud-Beit Tammuz (9)

• Vol 8.16 - Balak 2

  Debate in the boundary of killing one who cohabits with a heathen woman that "zealots may punish him" but only during the act (10)

• Vol 8.17 - Pinchas 1Links

  Rashi: "Pinchas the son of Eleazar" The tribes' claim that his "mother's father [Jethro] fattened calves for idols" (11)

• Vol 8.18 - Pinchas 2

  Rashi: "but he was not" The reason that the daughters of Zelophchad stressed that their father died for his (own) sin (11)

• Vol 8.19 - Matot 1Links

  Rashi: "Eleazar the kohen said"; "This is the statute of the Torah" (4)

• Vol 8.20 - Matot 2Translated

  The connection between the request of the Bnei Gad and Bnei Reuvain and the claim of the Spies (6)

• Vol 8.21 - Masei 1

  Rashi: "The Canaanite king of Arad...heard: The difference between Rashi here and in parshat Chukat (8)

• Vol 8.22 - Masei 2

  Rashi: "Mahlah, Tirzah": How were they all equal if there is a difference in their age and intelligence (9)

• Vol 8.23 - Hosafot - Supplement

  Bamidbar-- TOC Complete