In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Naso. The word that Amichai chooses to explore this week comes from Bamidbar (Numbers), Chapter Nine Verse Twenty-Three. He focuses on the marching orders of the Jews as they journeyed through the desert. Listen to Amichai explore the power of these words this week’s Verse Per Verse.

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Naso

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Bamidbar. The word that Amichai chooses to explore this week comes from Bamidbar, the first story in the fourth book of the bible. The word he focuses on this week is Bamidbar and the words that are connected to it. Listen to Amichai explore the power of these words this week’s Verse Per Verse.

Bamidbar

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Emor. The word that Amichai chooses to explore this week comes from Vayikra, Chapter Twenty-Three, Verse fifteen. This verse discusses the confusion in the counting of the Omer. Listen to Amichai explore the confusion in this week’s Verse Per Verse.

Emor

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the double torah portion Acharei Mot and Kedoshim. The word that Amichai chooses to explore this week comes from Vayikra, Chapter Eighteen, Verse twenty-two. This verse discusses relationships between two men. Listen to Amichai explore the word Toyva “Abomination” in this week’s Verse Per Verse.

Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Tazria-Metzora. The word that Amichai chooses to explore this week comes from Vayikra, Chapter Thirteen, Verse Fourty-Six. This verse discusses the way that a person with leporacy must live. What does Badad mean? Listen to Amichai explore it all in this week’s Verse Per Verse.

Tazria-Metzora

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Shemini. The word that Amichai chooses to explore this week comes from Vayikra, Chapter Ten, Verse One and Two. These verses discuss the priestly offering that was made of a fire that was Zara. What does Zara mean? Translations are as far as […]

Episode Twenty-Five: Shemini

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Tzav. As we are only days away from the start of Passover, Amichai, not surprisingly, delves into the word “Matzot”. This staple of Passover, has a much deeper meaning in the Jewish texts. In Leviticus, Chapter Six, Verses 7 and 8, Matzot are discussed. While some would merely translate this word as unleavened bread, what would you think of a translation that says that it means “holy things”? Listen to this weeks episode to delve deeper with Amichai, “Verse Per Verse.”

Episode Twenty-Four: Tzav

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Vayikra, the first portion in the bok of Leviticus. The word that Amichai chooses to explore this week comes from Vayikra, Chapter One, Verse Two. The word is Korban. It is most often translated as offering, or sacrifice. Amichai explores the background to those words, and asks us to consider what they could mean, and how we could make the word personal to us today.

Episode Twenty-Three: Vayikra

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Episode Twenty-Two: Vayakel-Pikudei

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Ki Tisa. Amichai focuses on Exodus, Chapter 32, Verse 6, and specifically, as his wont to do, on the translation of the word “Litsachek”. How would you translate this word? How did Amichai? Listen to learn.

Episode Twenty-One: Ki Tisa

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Tetzaveh. This portion deals with the garments of the high-priest, and Amichai explors Chapter 28, but focuses on the Urim and Tumim, words which are not translated well at all? What do these two “mystical” words mean? Listen in to learn more.

Episode Twenty: Tetzaveh

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Episode Nineteen: Terumah

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Mishpatim. More specifically, “Lauviticus” explores Exodus, Chapter 23, Verse 12 and the word Nafesh. Nafesh has many possible translations, but Amichai explores the connection between this word and it’s root word Nefesh. How do these two words connect? Listen in to how Amichai explores grapples with this question.

Episode Eighteen: Mishpatim

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Yitro. In this portion, Yitro, for whom the parsha is named comes with his daughter and Moshe’s sons to see Moshe. In relationship, he becomes the first “Jew by Choice.” Amichai explores Exodus, chapter 19, verse 5 and specifically the word Segulah. The word is translated as everything from treasure, to valued, to chosen…

Episode Seventeen: Yitro

In this episode of Verse Per Verse, Amichai explore the torah portion Beshalach. In this portion, the Israelites have left Egypt, and the American Standard translation if Chapter 13, Verse 18 says “But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.” The word “armed” in hebrew is the word Chamushim and while some translations will use the word “armed” or “equipped for battle”, or “with weapons” others have translated it, by connecting it to the word Chamesh or “Five”. How is the word five used in this important verse? Listen to find out!

Episode Sixteen: Beschalach

Join Amichai Lau-Lavie in his annual trip through the torah portion by portion, verse by verse.

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