Bechukotai
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008This week (Thursday night and Friday), we celebrate LaG b’Omer, with its bonfires and bow and arrows making it a favourite for Israeli schoolchildren and a disaster for Israeli environmentalists.
Archive for May, 2008
This week (Thursday night and Friday), we celebrate LaG b’Omer, with its bonfires and bow and arrows making it a favourite for Israeli schoolchildren and a disaster for Israeli environmentalists.
Behar
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008The first few sections of this week’s parsha discuss the mitzvot of Shemittah and Yovel (the sabbatical and jubilee years), which reminds us of a peculiar comment found in the Palestinian Talmud regarding Yovel. The Talmud states that on the cusp of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, Moshe taught his ...
Emor
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Parshat Emor seems at first glance to be somewhat of a hodge-podge of unrelated topics. The four basic sections of the parsha deal with
Kedoshim
Thursday, May 1st, 2008To become holy, to be like Hashem, that is the divinely-mandated charge that emerges from the opening of Parshat Kedoshim. No small feat, indeed! And the rest of the parsha, with its numerous injunctions, gives us much-needed guidance as to HOW one goes about becoming holy (a word whose meaning ...