Leviticus, the Book of

Leaving Egypt was not just a physical change in geography.

No form of energy is of any use unless there is a way to channel and harness it. Otherwise, the energy simply dissipates.

Leviticus 16:1–18:30

It makes sense that the goat offered to G-d should be the best and the nicest, but why does the scapegoat need to be perfect?

Introduction Rambam concludes Sefer Kedushah, “the Book of Holiness,” by describing the mitzvah to cover the blood of a slaughtered fowl or undomesticated animal. He completes his discussion of the subject by saying, “When one covers [the blood with earth...

Introduction One of the fundamental principles of Torah Law is the preeminence given to a Jew’s life. So basic is this value that, at the very beginning of his Mishneh Torah, when outlining Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah, “The Laws [that are] the Fundamentals of...

Introduction Parshas Acharei describes the service performed by the Kohen Gadol in the Beis HaMikdash on Yom Kippur. However, it begins, Vayikra 16:1-2. “G‑d spoke to Moshe after the death of the two sons of Aharon, when they drew close before G‑d and die...

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