Torah from Bet El: Vayikra

Kabbalistic Twist on Vayikra

Baruch Gordon looks in the Kabbalah to discover why the last letter of the first word of this week's Parshat Vayikra is smaller than the others. (Hint: it has to do with the Land of Israel)

Torah from Bet El: Vayakhel

How Is Living in the Diaspora Idolatry?

Baruch Gordon examines the two rectifications of idolatry: Shabbat and the Land of Israel.

Sacrificing the Altar Itself

Adapted by Hillel Fendel

A B'sheva newspaper investigation by Yoni Rotenberg shows how the Palestinian Authority is seeking to destroy Jewish history in the Shomron (Samaria)

Israel underwent something of a national trauma earlier this month, when it was discovered that one of the oldest Biblical Jewish sites in the country had been purposely destroyed by Palestinian Authority bodies. And then, to pour salt on the wounds, while some government officials condemned the destruction, Defense Minister Benny Gantz excused it as just "human error."

The original report of the destruction arrived two weeks ago. Channel 12 reporter Lia Spilkin provided viewers with a short video obtained by the organization "Preserving the Eternal." The clip shows heavy machinery grinding large boulders into gravel, with an Arab narrator boasting, "Here we see bulldozers taking apart the stones of what the Jews call Joshua's Altar and turning them into gravel for a road that we are paving here."

Torah from Bet El: Ki Tisa

 Then the Tabernacle, Now the Land

Baruch Gordon discusses the campaign found in Ki Tisa for the building materials to construct the Tabernacle and Sanctuary, and tells how we can participate in like construction today.

Torah from Bet El: Tetzave

 How Temple Laws Apply to Modern Israel

Baruch Gordon uses one of the laws of the Temple found in Parshat Tetzave to teach something insightful about the building of the modern State of Israel.