BMidbar

B'Midbar:

The Book of Numbers... But are the Numbers Accurate?
Jewish Pride is Knowing Who You Are
The Incredible Human Spirit
Discrimination? Judgment v Mercy
First Borns - Consecrated or Not?
Proper Role Playing
Be Optimistic As We Learn From History
Inspiration Comes From Your Focus - Not From Where You Stand

The Torah, Protection from Illness, and Respecting Others

That They Shall Live and Not Die

Naso in B'maidbar? The Story of Bnei K'has, Guardian of the Torah

Naso:
In Good Faith - being Faithful to One's spouse
How was the Mishkan Transported?

Who is IN and who is OUT of the community - is discrimination against our fellow Jew ever appropriate?
The Kohanim Who Bless Us - what disqualifies a kohen from 'duchening'
Embracing Mitzvot Properly - using the Nazir as an example
Be Jewishly Inspired By Inspirational Jews
Sotah - a Deterrent, or a recipe for making a marriage great?
Religious Roles: Where Sharing Really is Caring

The Nazir and Moshe's Awareness of the Future
Uniformity Does Not Mean Everyone is the Same
Blessings For Life

The Blessings of the Kohanim

B'Haalos'kha:
Divine Changes - When it is God who offers a suggestion for "changing" tradition
The Bull Sin Offering and the Levites
Finding Happiness in Every Day Living
Levites Retire, but We Never Retire

Yisro's Role in Training Functional Jews
Biblical Depression: Is Moshe Suicidal?
Making Positive Actions Atone For Negative Ones (Can also be used in Shlach)
Who Were the Complainers - the Importance of a Conversation before resorting to complaining

Where Idleness Fits in the Service of God
Razors to Raise Them - A unique insight into the consecration process of the Levites

The Beautiful Side of Second Chances
The Eldad and Meidad Story
When It's Cloudy...

What Effected Travel? Let Us Count the Things
Plan A, B, and C - Why did Moshe invite Yitro to join the nation?

Moshe's Humility Emerges - Eldad and Meidad + Miriam and Aharon

Some Thoughts on Humility

What Was Miriam's Sin? - A short thought

Sh'lach:
The Relationship of Moshe and Yehoshua
Rising to the Occasion - Personalities of Kalev and Yehoshua
Don't Listen to Them - Know who YOU are (on the spies being perceived as grasshoppers)
Anshei Middos - Being People of Stellar Character
A Lone Voice (a sermon in the aftermath of the Flotilla incident of 2010)

Kalev, the Hero

A Sure Sign of Hatred and a Challenge (for some) to Overcome 
Moshe's Teachable Moment - Commitment to Long Term Goals
Real Teshuva = Moving With the Torah (A Thought About the Maapilim)

Pharoah - Yes; Pharaoh - No - on not returning to Egypt & the Jewish horse that won the Triple Crown
The Missing Alef - Keeping God in Our Lives

The Ger and Me - Are we equals?
Making Positive Actions Atone For Negative Ones (Can also be used in B'haalotkha)
Gather Wood and Die? - Thoughts about the Woodgatherer (M'koshesh Eitzim)

Belligerence? Ambivalence? - Reflections on the outcomes of sin - Wood gatherer and blasphemer
The Non-Mitzvah of Tzitzis - all mitzvot are binding, while the obligations of some mitzvot are dependent on certain factors


Korach:
Danger of a Cult of Personality
Torah and Serving God - Not Overstepping God's Rules
The Arrogance of Korach - Seeking Humility in Our Holy Encounters

The Evilness of Machlokes Not for the Sake of Heaven

Korach's Recipe For Disaster

Leaders We Deserve
The Wealth of Korach

The Humility of the Elite
Tzaraat or Death - on Haughtiness and Its Outcome

The Tribe of Levi and Being Leviim
Strength Comes From.. Strength
How Losers Can Be Winners
"Reality Check" of the Staff Test
Moshe's Bumper Sticker - A Lesson in Kiddush Hashem (and why Korach was doomed)
Fights Divide, Peace Unites

Chukas:
MOSHE'S SIN - a compilation of a number of ideas explaining how Moshe's "sin" was not limited to the rock incident of Chapter 20
When Did Miriam Die?
Netziv's View of Moshe's sin
A Novel interpretation of M'ritem Pi (one of the phrases God uses to describe the sin of Moshe and Aharon)
Who was Really Punished With the Deaths of Moshe and Aharon?
Prayer Lesson from the Parah
A Chok With A Reason
The Death that Brings Atonement
Learning from Mistakes - and Correcting Right Away

Complaining at the End --> A Quick End
Time, and a Plan, Make all the Difference
Aharon's Greatest Nachas - Elazar Takes Over

The Death of Aharon
Revisiting a faux-pas - Why Moshe sent Spies a Second Time
A New Twist on the Snake Incident
Quick Punishment Leads to Teshuvah 

Singing a Song About Water - and Moving Forward
A Big Og? UGH!
Captive Taken - Israel Unites As One

Navigating the Battlefields of Life

Balak:
I Can't Do It - What is a true inability v what is in our mind?

Bilaam's Lads, and Facing Failure
Living in Peace Once Again
Sincere Apologies Only ( A response to Helen Thomas)
Relationships "With" Others
The Deed in the Desert
Bilaam Realizes the Fatality of His Mission

To Have Eyes and Yet Not See - the Curse of Bilaam
May the Prophet's Words Come True
Seeing and Seeking Out the Good in Others

The Unity We Learn from Bilaam
An Enemy Doomed to Fail
It's About Power (and Kavod) - Zimri (sadly related to rabbinic scandal of October 2014)
To Live in the Promised Land, At Peace With Neighbors


Pinchas:

Taking the Right Stand - Awarded Covenants

What is the Bris Shalom
It's About Power (and Kavod) - Zimri
History is Unkind - Now what should we do?
Who Lived Through the Spies and Entered the Promised Land?

Different Kinds of Rushing to Judge - How quickly does Moshe seek answers when he is unsure?
What Was Tzlafchad's Sin?
Revisiting Tzlafchad
Mount Avarim - The Ultimate Transition
Mount Avarim - revisited, from a different perspective (Life transition for parents and for childless)
Man Plans...
The Covenant of Peace - the blessing given to Pinchas
Logic Would Seem to Dictate - how Torah observance and teachings are not always dictated by logic
Torah Teaches Not to Sin - no room for vigilantism

Matos:
Universal Brotherhood = Marrying In (A response to intermarriage)
When Vengeance is Sweet

Fighting the War With Midian - Instruction for Our Time?
Revenge...Anything But Sweet

The Death of Bilaam
At the Forefront of the Mind - Priorities of Tribes of Gad and Reuven
Respectful Objection - Choosing Our Words Carefully (Moshe's unfounded accusation to Gad and Reuven)
To Not Lose A Man - praying for the IDF's success in Gaza
Sermon 2019

Fixing the Flaws of Bnei Gad and Reuven - For Our Very Survival!
Finding Commonality With Humanity

A Nine Days Message? - A lament about the Jewish community

Masei:
The Insignificance of Marah
Mount Avarim - The Ultimate Transition
Compassionate Leadership
Guilt of the Kohen Gadol?
To Defeat An Enemy (How to Win A War)