One of the most prominent segments of our parasha is known as Parashat HaMoadim, the Section of the Festivals. Its 44 verses comprise the 23rd chapter of Vayikra and serve as an encyclopedic …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/15/19
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Time management is more than management and larger than time. It is about life itself. G-d gives us one thing above all: life itself. And He gives it to us all on equal terms. However rich we …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
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5/15/19
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Although many of his adherents deny it, he definitely had an anti-Semitic streak and was, at least for a time, sympathetic to the Nazi cause. Yet he was one of the major psychological theorists …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/15/19
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Chapter 18 of the Book of Vayikra contains a number of negative mitzvot — things we are not supposed to do. Many of the negative actions are labeled to’evot — an interesting …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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5/10/19
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I once gave a lecture on the ethical challenges of the seventh commandment (“Thou shalt not steal”). Afterwards, I was approached by a fellow from Vienna who was a Shoah …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/10/19
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Parashat Acharei Mot, known as the parasha of Yom Kippur, focuses upon the manner of observing this Yom Tov in the Mishkan and Beit HaMikdash. One of the many constitutive elements of a Beit …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/10/19
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If we put together recent discoveries in neuroscience with Midrashic tradition, we may be able to shed new light on the meaning of the central mystery of Parshat Acharei Mot: the two goats, …
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By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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5/10/19
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There is much that the Torah leaves to our imagination. Regular students of the weekly Torah portion soon become convinced that the narratives they read each week are deliberately abbreviated, as …
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/10/19
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One of the most celebrated mitzvot of our parasha is “v’ahavta l’reiacha kamocha” — “and you shall love your fellow like yourself” (Vayikra 19:18). …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/8/19
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Something fundamental happens at the beginning of Kedoshim, and the story is one of the greatest, if rarely acknowledged, contributions of Judaism to the world.
Until now, Vayikra has been …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
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5/8/19
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