{"id":2845,"date":"2025-06-01T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2025-06-01T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:41:11","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-bemidbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cBemidbar\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Book of Bemidbar, or Numbers, which begins with the reading this week (Numbers 1:1-4:20) is apropos both in English, and in the Hebrew names. It certainly has LOTS of Numbers, and for very good reasons, and it takes place &#8216;B&#8217;midbar,&#8217; or &#8220;In the Wilderness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship and the Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SSM-5-30-25-Bemidbar-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day midrash is about more than just the significance of the &#8216;Numbers&#8217; that make up so much of the story. If &#8220;faith&#8221; was all that matters, why would He spend so much ink on numbers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And why is there so much information in here that doesn&#8217;t really merit much attention from so much of &#8216;christianity&#8217; anyway? What can we really learn from things that most would evidently prefer to ignore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bemidbar: &#8220;Pay Attention to Scripture Ignored&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WT-CooH-5-31-25-Bemidbar-Pay-Attention-to-Things-IGNORED-Numbers-matter-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-bemidbar\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-bemidbar\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2025 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Bemidbar&#8221; (Numbers 1:1-4:20) and related Scripture (Hosea 2, Romans 9, I Thess 5). <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2845\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11,1865,1698,12],"tags":[192,614,236,1995,193,1901,104,2104,725,2107,2105,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}