Why is the letter aleph in the word va’yikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus, written smaller than the others? It is smaller, suggests the Ba’al Haturim, because it reveals Moses’s ...
The Book of Leviticus opens with the word va’yikra, “and He [the Lord] called” (Leviticus 1:1). Rashi notes that va’yikra is a term of endearment. The text tells us that God spoke to Moses from the ...
Sometimes the most seemingly arcane Torah verses can have surprising relevance to our modern lives. I run The Chai Center, a Jewish outreach organization, and we hold free High Holy Days services for ...
If a person sins, whereby he accepts an oath, and he is a witness [to some matter] by seeing or knowing [it], yet he does not testify, he shall bear his transgression… ~ Leviticus 5:1 As a ...
The beginning of the Book of Leviticus tells us how God calls out to Moses. It uses the somewhat unusual verb of “Vayikra” whose simple translation is “And He called out,” as opposed to the more ...
The Ramban gives names to each of the Chumashim and he calls the book of Vayikra – Torat Kohanim. The preceding book Shmot (Sefer HaGalut Ve’haGeulah) focuses, in the latter half, on the building of ...
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