Musings on life, spirituality and current world events. Friday, May 29, 2015. A Sotah is a woman who has compromised. The Talmud says that, if you see someone fall into temptation, like a Sotah, you should abstain from wine, like a Nazir.

Friday, November 23, 2007. Thursday, November 15, 2007. Wednesday, November 7, 2007. With Chanukah less than a month away, I wanted to share an article that Rabbi Shmidman wrote for Jewish Action magazine. Monday, November 5, 2007.

This week we begin the book of Bamidbar. One theme of this book is that all of our leaders and especially our spiritual leaders - are very human and very much capable of tragic mistakes. The failure of human leadership is perhaps the most dominant theme of this book. Then in parashat Nassoh we read at length about the great and special offerings made by princes as part of inauguration of the mishkan. Chukat tells us of the terrible mi.