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Remembering free food in Egypt: How could the children of Israel have eaten free food in Egypt, when, as slaves, they even had to provide for the raw materials for the very bricks that they were compelled to produce? It wasn’t the monetary value of the food that they were referring to, but the idea that they were free from responsibility, free from the “yoke” of Torah, the covenant of Sinai.
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Beha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)
Parashat Beha’alotcha is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 14, 5769/June 6, 2009
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‘Fessing up: “The L-rd then spoke to Moses saying: Tell the children of Israel: When a man or woman commits any of the sins against man to act treacherously against G-d, and that person is [found] guilty,they shall confess the sin they committed, and make restitution for the principal amount of his guilt, add its fifth to it, and give it to the one against whom he was guilty.” (Numbers 5:5-7) When the person who has erred makes an oral confession the confession itself removes the sin from his essence and the person returns to his true self.
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Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89)
Parashat Naso is read on Shabbat:
Sivan 7, 5769/May 30, 2009
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The Kohen Gadol – High Priest – serves before the Shechinah – the Holy presence of
G-d, a place of life everlasting. Representing the entire nation of Israel, his work in the Holy Temple symbolizes the eternal nature of Israel. Therefore, the High Priest is instructed not to involve himself in the burial or mourning process, concerning even his mother or father. For he must remain untainted by the false illusion of death in the infinite reality of G-d.
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Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24-23)
Parashat Emor is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 15, 5769/May 9, 2009
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“You shall be holy like I am holy.” (Leviticus 19:2) How can we become holy as G-d is holy? Certainly, we are expected to live within the guidelines set out by Torah. Yet, to a certain extent a person can conduct himself as “a scoundrel with the permission of the Torah,” that is, live within the laws of Torah, but, nevertheless, lead a self-centered hedonistic life, never drawing nearer to G-d. But to make ourselves holy, we need to live responsibly and with commitment to G-d, even within the permitted parameters of Torah.
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Acharei Mot – Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-20-27)
Parashat Acharei Mot – Kedoshim is read on Shabbat:
Iyar 8, 5769/May 2, 2009
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Imagine receiving a report card from G-d, a rebuke from the Master of the Universe when He sees us straying from the path He has set for us. With the rebuke comes the reward: the manifest testimony of His love for us.
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Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1-15:33)
Parashat Tazria-Metzora is read on Shabbat:
Rosh Chodesh Iyar, 5769/April 25, 2009
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The tragedy of the righteous Nadav and Avihu, sons of Aharon, and the dietary laws of kashrut: the supreme importance of living the moment as G-d defines it, and not as we would like it to be.
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Shmini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)
Parashat Shmini is read on Shabbat:
Nissan 24, 5769/April 18, 2009
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How do you feel about yesterday? Are you being held back by what was? At dawn, a single kohen – priest – is chosen to remove from the altar an amount of ashes and places them at the base of the altar, a procedure known as “trumat hadeshen” – the lifting up of the ashes and their removal to a pure place. Literally, “yesterday’s ashes.” Torah is teaching us, through the Temple service, how to deal with our yesterdays.
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Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36)
Parashat Tzav is read on Shabbat HaGadol:
Nissan 10, 5769/April 4, 2009
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