“The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying: ‘Speak to the Israelite people, and say to them: “When any of you presents an offering of cattle to the Lord, he shall ...

We begin the third book of the Torah, the book known as Torat Kohanim, the book of the priest-ministers of the Divine Sanctuary, guardians of the rituals connecting Israel to God. Known in English as ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

I would like to begin this column in a somewhat unusual way, by describing the circumstances of its writing. I write it while on a short vacation from a reserve duty to which I was called, and still ...

Why is the letter aleph in the word vayikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus written smaller than the others? A second, more mystical thought comes to mind. Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the ...

This week, we begin the third book of the Torah, Sefer Vayikra, which is colloquially known as “Torat Kohanim--the Laws of the Priests,” as the overwhelming focus of this sefer is the rituals and ...

“When a person from among you brings an offering to the Lord: from the cattle, from the herd, or from the flock, you shall bring your offering” (Leviticus 1:2). From the wording “When a person from ...

As we come to the Torah’s middle section, we find ourselves with a book that often gets overlooked. Shorter than the other four books and interrupted by Purim and Pesach, it often just feels like a ...

What is a dedicated vegetarian, who is also a believing, contemporary Jew, to make of the book of Leviticus, specifically this week’s Torah portion, Vayikra? From the very beginning of the portion, we ...