Rabbi Jessica E. Locketz is the rabbi and director of education of Temple Emanuel, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Rabbi Locketz oversees family and youth programming, serving as the educational leader of the ...

In this week’s double Torah portion, we read in Chapter 33 of Bamidbar (Numbers) about the many dozens of stopping points where the Jews encamped in the Sinai Desert during our people’s four decades’ ...

Only Aaron’s specific date of death is recorded in the Torah: “And Aaron died…in the fifth month [Av], on the first day of the month” (Numbers 33:38). We remember the deceased on the yahrzeit, the ...

In the Torah reading of Matot, we’re informed how the tribes of Gad and Reuben were blessed with a significant wealth of flocks. The leadership of those tribes demanded of Moses to let them stay on ...