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Shabbat Greetings
This week’s Torah portion, Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30), describes the priestly rituals on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Among the sacrifices brought that day by both the High Priest and the children…
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The special Torah portion for the intermediate days of Passover on Shabbat is from Exodus 33:12-34:26 and Numbers 28:19-25. As suggested from Reform Judaism, On the Shabbat during Passover, we are…
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The Torah portion is Metzora (Leviticus 14:1-15:33), and this year it falls on the Shabbat immediately before Passover and it is called “Shabbat HaGadol.” The portion has God describing the purification ritual for…
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I happened to read an article about a traditional rabbi in Maryland who started out his words in a way that had me shaking my head. He started by saying…
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This week, we read the portion, Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47). The word Shemini means “eight.” For seven days Aaron and his sons had prepared themselves for the formal inauguration into the priesthood. Now on the…
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This week we read not only the Torah portion Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36) – God continues to describe the different laws of sacrifices. A distinction is made between sin offerings, burnt offerings, and…
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In this week’s Torah portion, we begin the third book of the Torah, Leviticus or Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26). In this portion, we learn the laws and rituals of the numerous sacrifices. The…
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The basic lesson in this week’s Torah reading, Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38) is accountability. God demands from Moses and the others who formulated and created the Tabernacle in the wilderness, to account for all the…
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The presence of social media and now, artifical intelligence (AI), I am sensing that it is becoming harder to find the right balance between appropriate self-esteem, tending to our physical…
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A few days ago, I was working on something and had the television on for some background noise. It was the Seinfeld show and it happened to be the last…
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