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.
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.
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.
Shof'tim for Tots
A guide to help adults learn how to engage young children in a discussion about this week’s Torah portion.
Va-et'chanan for Tots
Hear, O Israel! The Eternal is our God, the Eternal alone. You shall love the Eternal your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children.
Vayeilech for Tots
A guide to help adults learn how to engage young children in a discussion about this week’s Torah portion.
V'zot Hab'rachah for Tots
A guide to help adults learn how to engage young children in a discussion about this week’s Torah portion.
Acharei Mot for Tots
My rules alone shall you observe, and faithfully follow My laws: I the Lord am your God.
-Leviticus 18:4
B'chukotai for Tots
Why are both blessings and curses included in Parashat B'chukotai? Questions and ideas for children and adults to discuss.
B'har for Tots
If your kin, being in straits, come under your authority and are held by you though resident aliens, let them live by your side.… Let your kin live by your side as such.
-Leviticus 25:35-36