There are differing opinions concerning the meaning of chok (commonly translated as “decree”), the type of law discussed at the beginning of Parashat Chukat (Numbers 19:2). Some maintain that chok is ...

In the portion of Chukat, the Torah tells us that when the priests transition a person from a state of tumah (ritual impurity) to one of taharah (ritual purity), virtually all of the priests involved ...

Chukat is about mortality. In it we read of the death of two of Israel’s three great leaders in the wilderness, Miriam and Aaron, and the sentence of death decreed against Moses, the greatest of them ...