We are now in the Three Weeks between fast days (see article #3), leading up to Tisha b'Av, commemorating the destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem.
This Shabbat is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe Cordevero--the RAMAK--author of several major Kabbalah texts and predecessor to the Holy Ari as leader of the Safed kabbalists (articles #1-2).
The last four articles (#4-7) relate to the Weekly Reading, Pinchas