'The Sotah Obliteration Rite and the Egalitarian Torah'. Shabbat Family Service 30/05/26

This message is by Camilo Junca-Leon, from this week’s Torah portion, Naso (‘Take a census’ or ‘Lift Up’, Numbers 4:21-7:89). The passage he has chosen from Numbers 5:29-30 (see below) is one of many in the Bible which show that men and women are equal before God. 29 “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman