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...
Everything that is for the sake of G-d should be of the best and most beautiful. When one builds a house of prayer, it should be more beautiful than one's own dwelling. When one feeds the hungry, one should feed them of the best and sweetest of one's table. When one clothes the naked, one should clothe them with the finest of one's clothes. Whenever one designates something for a holy purpose, one should sanctify the finest of one's possessions; as it is written (Leviticus 3:16), "All the fat is to G-d."
— Maimonides
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The world is a place of constant change and unrest.
Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after.
Each point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being.
It is a world of fragments, a perpetual rush of traffic and noise.
Look at your own life: You do so ...
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