When Is Tzav Read?
/ 10 Nisan 5786
/ 18 Adar II 5787
/ 12 Nisan 5788
Summary
- The five sacrifices that the priests are to perform are described. (6:1-7:38)
- Limitations on the consumption of meat are delineated. (7:17-27)
- Details about the ordination of Aaron and his sons as priests and the preparation of the Tabernacle as a holy place are given. (8:1-36)
More Tzav Commentaries
- Who’s Afraid of the Dark?
- The Kohanim as Sacred Chefs
- Sacred Nephrology in Parashat Tzav and The Power of Two
- From the Altar to the Bimah: What is Expected of a Leader?
- Putting Prayers on Your Calendar Every Day
- Never Too Proud to Wield the Sacred Shovel
- Commandments and Commander: How Do We Hear and Respond?
- Tzav for Teens: Shabbat Sha-raps
- It All Depends: Finding the Middle of the Torah
- Heeding the Call to Commandment - and to Obligation
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Ten Minutes of Torah: Tzav Commentary
Making Room at Our Tables
By: Rabbi Andy Gordon
On my first Shabbat as the newest student rabbi at Temple Beth Ha-Shalom, a small Reform congregation in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, I introduced myself, began learning names, and met congregants for the very first time. As I was speaking with some members, I heard a young boy exclaim to his father: “Dad, the rabbi is a man! I thought only women could be rabbis?”
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