Balak(Numbers 22:2-25:9)

Moving Down in the World

Rabbi Shraga Simmons shares an inspiring insight from the weekly Torah portion.

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Published: July 9, 2003

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Visitor Comments: 2

(2) FRANK, July 11, 2008 6:03 AM

he will never leave us

as like many jewish people some feel that they don't need G-d, for me I need him every day, here I wasw taken from my parents, had alot of emotional things in my life, Hashem has always been there, and like I tell people now, I do not want to go back to egypt. Our G-d wants us to go forward, I say study Torah, look only to G-d, he will direct your path,

(1) Bernard Draper, July 13, 2003 12:00 AM

What about the Jews in the diaspora?

I have travelled extensively throughout western Canada, and the inland North-West(US), and have found many many Jewish people without a connection to Judaism, I was one, having come as a 'Survivor' at the age of 8 in 1947 from Holland. There was absolutely NOTHING for spiritual aid or even any connections to a Rabbi or Schul.
Even as I write there are hundreds who do not know the shema, or any Judaic prayers, they have forgotten Yiddish, know no Hebrew, and are totally cut -off. We know that Hashem will watch over them, but in the meantime?

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Rabbi Shraga Simmons

Rabbi Shraga Simmons spent his childhood trekking through snow in Buffalo, New York. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He is the senior editor of Aish.com and the director of JewishPathways.com. An expert on media bias, he was the founding editor of HonestReporting.com, and is the author of David & Goliath: The Explosive Inside Story of Media Bias in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2012). Rabbi Simmons lives with his wife and children in the Modi'in region of Israel.

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