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Parashat Be'Har - Be'Chu'ko'tai - Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
Parashat Be'Har - Be'Chu'ko'tai Cleveland Jewish News (blog) This week's two portions – Be'har (literally, “at the mountain”), and Be'Chuku'tai (literally, “in my laws”) – mark the end of the third book of the Torah, the book of Leviticus. Among others, these portions contain the famous laws of “shmi'ta” – the ... |
Parashat Behukotai: The sanctity of Jerusalem - Jerusalem Post
Parashat Behukotai: The sanctity of Jerusalem Jerusalem Post By SHLOMO RISKIN Then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.' Leviticus 26:4. The Hebrew month of Iyar celebrates two glorious days in modern Israeli history: ... |
When your brother will be low - The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
 The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. | When your brother will be low The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. Parashat Behar, the first of this week's two Torah portions, considers what to do when a “brother” is slipping financially. “And when your brother will be low so that his hand is slipping with you, then you shall take hold of him — an alien and a ... |
Humility - The Prerequisite to Holiness - D'var Torah for Parashat Emor - The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. (blog)
Humility - The Prerequisite to Holiness - D'var Torah for Parashat Emor The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. (blog) Last week's Torah portion K'doshim (Leviticus 19) and this week's Emor (Leviticus 21-25) each, in different ways, addresses the prerequisite attitude necessary for the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to the Kohanim (Priests) in their service before ... |
'After death … there is holiness' Parashat Acharei Mot - Kedoshim - thejewishchronicle.net
'After death … there is holiness' Parashat Acharei Mot - Kedoshim thejewishchronicle.net This week we read from a double portion, the combination of Parashat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30) and Parashat Kedoshim (Leviticus 19:1-20:27). On the surface, the combination of these portions is functional, enabling us to complete the required ... |
Parashat Emor - Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
Parashat Emor Cleveland Jewish News (blog) This week's portion, Emor – literally, “tell” as in “tell all the priests to…” – is very unique, both to me personally and to every thinking Jewish person more generally. It is personally unique to me as this is my “bar Mitzvah” portion. |
The power of our holidays - Cleveland Jewish News
The power of our holidays Cleveland Jewish News This Shabbat we read from Parashat Emor, which provides a list of all our major holidays and their set times. What is it about holidays that play such a significant role in the lives of the Jewish people? I am reminded of a Midrashic story about an ... |
Parashat Tazria-Metzorah: Teen Dvar Torah - Boulder Jewish News
 Boulder Jewish News | Parashat Tazria-Metzorah: Teen Dvar Torah Boulder Jewish News By Staff on May 3, 2012 - 11 Iyar 5772 | Add a Comment By Ben Goelz This is the grossest part of the Torah. It's called Tazria. It comes from the book of Leviticus. It's about the laws of impurity, or tzaraat. Tazria literally means “she gives birth”. |
Judaism: Emor: The Kohanim's Portion (Israel Reading) - Arutz Sheva
Judaism: Emor: The Kohanim's Portion (Israel Reading) Arutz Sheva Perhaps it is not entirely coincidence that Parashat Emor almost always falls in the 23-day period between Israel Independence Day and Jerusalem Liberation Day - and that the menorah lighting is written after the list of holidays. |
Show Me Your Glory - Shma
Show Me Your Glory Shma The subject was Parashat Kedoshim, the Levitical holiness code, and I was attending my local egalitarian minyan, listening to a lay leader speak about the Torah reading. He was addressing the sensitive topic of the prohibition against male-male sexual ... |
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