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Vayikra
Dispatch guilt and sins
Send up scent and sacrifice
You are forgiven
Tzav
What pleases our God
Meticulous rituals
Priests as exemplars
Chol HaMo-eid Pesach
For those promises
Bring Deliver Redeem Take
Israel was freed
Sh'mini
Alien fire yields
consuming consequences
mourning in silence
Tazria/M'tzora
Examine a flaw
transition to a clean state
isolate and pray
Acharei Mot/K'doshim
Death then holiness
laws of love honor restraint
God's admonitions
Emor
Be it festival
Shabbat or moments between
make every day count
B'har B'chukotai
All things must release
servitude and property
are impermanent
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