Rabbi Robin Nafshiserves as the rabbi of Temple Beth Jacob in Concord, New Hampshire, where her partner, Shira Nafshi, serves as the part-time cantor. They are the parents of Liba, who brings them much joy.
Long ago, in the days when we were farmers and shepherds in the Land of Israel, the Torah taught us that when we harvested our crops, we were to put the first fruits of our harvest in a basket and bring it as an offering to God. In this passage
The last parashah of the Book of Leviticus offers a kind of coda to this Torat Kohanim, " Torah of the priests." One might say that it draws to an inauspicious close, very different from the other books of our Bible.
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