reading a new book of Torah (raʾs, in Arabic, means 'head'). For the first parasha of each book of the Torah (the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers...

Balak (בָּלָק‎—Hebrew for "Balak," a name, the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 40th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה‎...

The term parashah, parasha or parashat (Hebrew: פָּרָשָׁה Pārāšâ, "portion", Tiberian /pɔrɔˈʃɔ/, Sephardi /paraˈʃa/, plural: parashot or parashiyot, also...

World Zionist Organization, 1981. Reprinted as New Studies in the Weekly Parasha. Lambda Publishers, 2010. Moshé Anbar. "Genesis 15: A Conflation of Two...

on every altar," but his intent was not to eradicate evil beliefs from Balak's mind, but rather to approach God so that God's communication would reach...

World Zionist Organization, 1981. Reprinted as New Studies in the Weekly Parasha. Lambda Publishers, 2010. Walter Brueggemann. Genesis: Interpretation:...