This week, Parasha Metzora continues with the theme of Tazria. In it, God gives Moses the law for the recoveredmetzora(commonly mistranslated asleper) and the ritual purification of the metzora by the kohen (priest). If the kohen determined that the metzora had healed, he or she underwent ...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks captures the power of music in Judaism when he writes, “Judaism is a religion of words, and yet whenever the language of Judaism aspires to the spiritual it breaks into song, as if the words themselves sought escape from the gravitational pull of finite meanings. ...
4 He entered the House of God and took and ate the Bread of the Presence” — which no one is permitted to eat but the cohanim. 5 “The Son of Man,” he concluded, “is Lord of Shabbat.” 6 On another Shabbat, when Yeshua had gone into the synagogue and was teaching, a man ...
“This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.’”(Zechariah 4:6) The food of Hanukkah is fried in oil, which includes donuts (sufganiyot), represents the miracle of a one-day supply of holy oil for the ...
28In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the...
This blessed time of the Lord comes every seventh day, completing the week. The number seven itself represents completion and is one of the meanings of the word Shabbat. We are to approach this blessed day as if we are receiving something extraordinary and new, because it is. Invigorating Ou...