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• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Parshas Vayikra: The ideal

  The book of Vayikra has been given a bad rap. As a subject, Vayikra is often seen as detailed, dry, and mostly irrelevant. First of all, the Korbanos and other Temple ..

  Written by Anonymous
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  7 years ago

  Vayikra

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  7 years ago

  Parashas Vayikra – Act Speedily with the Poor

  Parashas Vayikra – Act Speedily with the Poor This week’s sedra sees us start the book of Vayikra. Now that the Mishkan is complete (in the previous Parashas ..

  Written by Daniel Sandground
• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Not just a lip service!

  Our sages teach us in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers 1:2) that the world continues to exist on the merits of Torah study, avodah, and acts of kindness. Avodah ..

  Written by Rafi Jager
• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Quality or Quantity..you choose!

  Of all the karbanos introduced in this week’s parsha, the only one that does not require the sacrifice of an animal is the karban mincha, an offering of flour ..

  Written by Rafi Jager
• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Vayikra and the Small Aleph – Moshe’s Humility (Mishlei)

  From a linguistic perspective, the removal of even one letter from a word in Lashon Hakodesh will alter the meaning of that word. The first word of this week’s ..

  Written by Eli Gaventa
• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Forcing Mitzvos

  Rashi [quoting the gemarra] raises a contradiction early on in our sedra (1:3). The pasuk tells us ‘if an olah is his sacrifice…he is to offer it up (‘yakriv ..

  Written by d fine
• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Korban – lost in translation

  Rav Shimshon Refoel Hirsch comments that, as with many Torah words we have translated into other languages, the word korban has fallen prey to a nefarious mistranslation. ..

  Written by d fine
• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Korbanos under the microscope

  In his introduction to Chumash Vayikra, the Ramban writes that this entire Chumash is devoted to the topic of sacrifices (korbanos); all the mitzvos in this Chumash ..

  Written by d fine
• Vayikra

  7 years ago

  Olah – be the best!

  Olah, Olah, Olah Olah The Chizkuni (1:3) points out that the first korban to be mentioned is the olah. Why is this? He answers that it is simply because the olah ..

  Written by d fine