Weekly Torah portion – בְּמִדְבַּר – Bamidbar – In the Wilderness; Numbers 1:1-4:20; Hosea 2:1-22
Sometimes life feels like a wilderness. Old certainties disappear, new paths are not yet visible, and in the midst of uncertainty, a person asks: Where do I find direction?
Precisely in these days before Shavuot, the weekly portion reminds us that God did not give the Torah in the comfort of an ordered world, but in the middle of the wilderness. Because often, the deepest spiritual truths do not emerge in times of stability, but precisely where a person learns to find inner order in the midst of uncertainty.
Bamidbar, which means “in the wilderness,” is a portion that is always read in the days before the festival of Shavuot, before the giving of the Torah. It is no coincidence that the Torah was not given in a built-up city or in an ordered and protected place, but davka — precisely, all the more so — in the wilderness.
There is a deep message in this.
The wilderness is...
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