Torah Commentary
Make a Special Passover Gift
Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.
Together, we will champion the lessons of Passover by bringing greater wholeness, justice, and belonging to our world.
Torah Commentary
B'chukotai for Tots
Why are both blessings and curses included in Parashat B'chukotai? Questions and ideas for children and adults to discuss.
When It’s Hard to Believe Life Will Get Better
In this week's double parashah, B'har/B'chukotai, we read (among many other topics) of the mitzvah to observe the yovel, the fiftieth "Jubilee" year.
Between Winds of Fear and the Gift of Rains
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.
Finding the Tzedek in Tzedakah
I was walking to lunch with a good Christian friend, a minister who was inviting me to join in a charitable project his congregation had just begun. We passed a beggar on the street.