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Leviticus 25:23 reads: “…for the land is Mine; for you are sojourners and resident-settlers with Me…” God logically justifies fairness

Tomorrow evening, one Hebrew month exactly after the First Night of Passover, there is a custom of celebrating “Pesach Sheini”

Israelis mourn their losses, the women and men who have sacrificed their lives for Israeli Independence the day immediately before

This week in Torah we read some of the finer details of bodily functions and ritual purity. In the words

As we celebrate Passover in a most unusual manner – at a safe distance from one another – so we

  As we continue to face difficult times, the Torah turns us to Leviticus – a book of rules, many

  So, the entire community of the Israelites went out from Moses’s presence, and then they came… everyone whose spirit

  One of the first accountings of the Israelites comes in this week’s Torah reading, in Exodus 30:13-15. Everyone over

There are more than fifty commandments in this Torah reading, from the very general to the most specific, like: “If

  That dramatic and cinematic moment, our ancestors crossing the Sea of Reeds, occurs in this week’s Torah reading. We