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Parshah Behaalotecha: Better Than Golden Corral and Ryan’s Steakhouse Combined!

May 22, 2013 by Patrick Beaulier

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Buffets in general are just sleazy. Think about it: you’re eating piles and piles of cheap food while kids with sticky hands run around screaming and people with less than ideal hygiene sneeze, cough and manhandle the salad bar. That’s assuming you live in an industrialized nation where such a thing as a buffet could exist. Most of the world doesn’t work that way.

The first buffet in recorded history is in Parshah Behaalotecha, and it seems that quail was the “haute cuisine” of the ancient Hebrews. But beware: having abundance doesn’t mean jack if you’re on the wrong side of God.

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Parsha Behaalotecha: “Untitled” (Num. 8:1 – 12:16)

June 5, 2012 by Jeremiah

I am going to cheat this week. I am cheating because like the ancient Hebrews in Behaalotecha I am literally living in a desert; but unlike those whose story unfolds in this portion it has only taken three years and seven months in the desert for this Jew to settle down in a permanent home or as I like to think of it in my own small piece of Zion. What resonates with me the most in this portion are the delicate intricacies involved when falling into a routine versus falling out of synch with that routine.

I am not picking sides because I am cheating this week. Like so many of us I love when things go smoothly, I love when word is kept, and I love when things start to change and lead toward a place I perceive to have greener grass (or I suppose browner sand in my case). [Read more…]

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