ב"ה
Vayikra 5763 - March 14, 2003
War
Love is the hallmark of Judaism; some of us even claim that we taught that word to the world. This Shabbat, however, we will stand in our synagogues and listen to a reading from the Torah that tells us to hate.
Love is the hallmark of Judaism; some of us even claim that we taught that word to the world. This Shabbat, however, we will stand in our synagogues and listen to a reading from the Torah that tells us to hate.
Parshah
Vayikra in a Nutshell
G-d tells Moses about the sacrifices brought on the altar in the Sanctuary, including the meal offering, peace offering, offering of atonement, guilt offering and ascending offering.
G-d tells Moses about the sacrifices brought on the altar in the Sanctuary, including the meal offering, peace offering, offering of atonement, guilt offering and ascending offering.
Stormy Winds
Occasionally, we open the unused drawers in the back of my youngest son's closet to look at these relics from a distant past...
Occasionally, we open the unused drawers in the back of my youngest son's closet to look at these relics from a distant past...
Story
The Other Purims
In Saragossa, Spain, Purim came a month early one year. In 18th century Fossano, Italy, it fell on Passover! And in 1991, "Purim Saddam" came to pass on... Purim
In Saragossa, Spain, Purim came a month early one year. In 18th century Fossano, Italy, it fell on Passover! And in 1991, "Purim Saddam" came to pass on... Purim
Purim Preview
The difference between the gragger and the dreidel, why we disguise ourselves on Purim, the three points of the hamantash, Yom Kippur as the "day like Purim", Jewish drunks...
The difference between the gragger and the dreidel, why we disguise ourselves on Purim, the three points of the hamantash, Yom Kippur as the "day like Purim", Jewish drunks...
The Torah commands that "No leaven, nor any honey, shall be offered by fire to G-d" (Leviticus 2:11). Ultra-sweet honey and ultra-sour leaven, are opposite extremes; G-d does not like extremes.
— Chassidic master Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk
Print Magazine
Blind faith cannot grasp Truth, because it does not grasp anything at all.
Intellect cannot grasp Truth, because intellect is finite and Truth is infinite.
Only the eye of the soul, its inner wisdom, can grasp Truth and know it as she knows her own self.
For she is Truth.
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