An Interactive Parsha Experience – 5779 Balak: There are at Least Two Sides to Every Story

Posted by Pardes Center for Jewish Educators Contributors on July 14, 2019
Topics: An Interactive Parsha Experience, Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), Balak

Are you able to see things from multiple perspectives? What would it look like to step into our antagonist’s shoes? In this week’s Interactive Parsha Experience, Rachel Friedrichs, Assistant Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Studies invites us, and our students, to think more deeply about the motives of Balak and Bilam creating a more nuanced understanding of the text.

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