Vayikra

March 22, 2022

Learning From Leviticus Again

This is the D’var Torah I gave in the synagogue on Saturday morning, March 12, 2022, for Parashat Vayikra. Even though it’s of a specific time and makes reference to that over and over, I read it again after a few years and find that my teachings here still speak. Most years I trot out… Continue reading

Calendar, Coronavirus, Current Affairs, Parashat Hashavua, Ritual, Spirituality, Vayikra
March 10, 2022

How to Start Another Pandemic Year: Learning from Leviticus

This is the D'var Torah I gave a year ago in our Torah reading cycle, March 20, 2021. It was by the Torah reading calendar the first reading of the second year of pandemic restrictions. I read it now and so much of how I'm reflecting is the same. When we last checked in at… Continue reading

Calendar, Coronavirus, Current Affairs, Ethics, Parashat Hashavua, Patience, Shabbat, USA, Vayikra
July 20, 2021

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy — A Map of Spring and Summer 2021

I've been wanting to get this down for weeks…. I’ve been very affected since March by Torah time – by how the cycle of reading the Torah in synagogue has mapped onto our experience of the pandemic since its one-year anniversary. The first anniversary of the formal declaration of the pandemic and the massive shut-downs… Continue reading

B’haalotcha, B’midbar, Behar, Calendar, Coronavirus, Current Affairs, Elul, High Holidays, Holidays, Ki Tetze, Ki Tissa, Korach, Leadership, Mas’ei, Mattot, Metzora, Naso, Numbers, Parashat Hashavua, Patience, Pekudei, Pinchas, Re’eh, Rosh Hashanah, Shmini, Shoftim, Study, Tisha B’Av, Torah, USA, Vayakhel, Vayikra, Yamim Noraim
March 7, 2014

E-Maggid: Vayikra

This week we start reading the third book of the Torah on Shabbat morning. It begins with a word written in a strange way. The word is Vayikra, which means "and he called". God calls to Moshe at the start of the book of Leviticus. But in the Torah, the last letter of Vayikra, the aleph, is written as a small… Continue reading

E-Maggid, Pesach, Spirituality, Vayikra
March 18, 2010

Parashat Vayikra: Two Views of Sacrifice

This week we begin reading the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). With little introduction, the text immerses us in the details of sacrificial offerings to God. In this first parasha of the book, there is nothing else — no narrative, no other laws or lessons. Most of Judaism as we know it, the whole Talmudic tradition,… Continue reading

Parashat Hashavua, Vayikra

Vayikra

Learning From Leviticus Again

How to Start Another Pandemic Year: Learning from Leviticus

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy — A Map of Spring and Summer 2021

E-Maggid: Vayikra

Parashat Vayikra: Two Views of Sacrifice