Rabbi Michoel Reach
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Rabbi Michoel Reach was a member in the Yeshiva Derech Chaim
Kollel in Brooklyn, NY and the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in
Baltimore, MD for many years. He has taught advanced classes on the
Chumash (Five books of Moses) for three years in Baltimore and is the
author of a not yet published book on Chumash. He also has a Bachelors
in Physics and Math from the California Institute of Technology and a
PhD in Math from the University of California Berkeley with a
Dissertation on the Recursion relation for K-Soliton solutions to the
Schroedinger Equation. He is presently a database consultant for the
Pathology Data Systems Department for the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine.
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The Age for a Levite to Work
In Numbers 8:24 it states that the Levites that were allowed to work at the Mishkan (Tabernacle) were reqired to be 25 years and up, while in Numbers 4:3 it says 30 to 50. Can you please explain to me…
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Breaking the Neck of the Donkey
Why was the first born of a donkey killed as prescribed in Exodus 13:13? Isn’t this contradicting to other Torah laws which are so sensitive to animal lives? What is the use of killing that innocent animal? I know it…
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G-d’s Intolerance for Idolatry
If G-d is so great why does the Torah and the Prophets etc. talk about G-d’s intolerance for idol worship? You shall not have another god “ because I Hashem am a vengeful G-dâ€? It’s almost as if the text…
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Free Choice and Natural Inclinations
My 9 year old grandson’s teacher described Esau as a “evil” & Jacob as a “righteous” when discussing their birth. When my grandson asked how that could be if there is free will to be good or bad, the teacher…
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Divine “Hate”
I would like to know the true meaning of the word “hate”, as is found in Malachi. The text is speaking of G-d loving Jacob and hating Esau. In Shemot 20: 4 G-d speaks of the punishment of the children…
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Fish Meat
Does the Talmud ever explain why fish is regarded as parve (neither a Milk product nor a Meat product) and not meat? Thank you. Hi! Very interesting question. The truth is that it’s the other way around. Chicken and other…
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Origin of Races
How can there be different races if there is one anscestor Adam? When and how did it start? How developed were people in the early history and doesn’t that contradict the theory of prehistoric primitive man in all senses? Maybe…
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Sacrificial Locations
I have been reading the Torah, and would like to know the significance of the west, east, north and south directions of how the animals were sacrificed on the altar? There must be a significance of each direction, but I…
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Hand Washing Before Bread
Where does it state in the Torah that one should wash their hands before eating bread? Hi! There is no such law in the Torah. The laws of hand washing are a Rabbinical enactment, designed to remind us how food…