Parsha: Acharei Mot

Thinking Fast and Slow (Acharei Mot 5779)

15th April 2019

If we put together recent discoveries in neuroscience with Midrashic tradition we may be able to shed new light … Read more

17th April 2018

The opening chapter of Kedoshim contains two of the most powerful of all commands: to love your neighbour and to … Read more

2nd May 2017

The nineteenth chapter of Vayikra, with which our parsha begins, is one of the supreme statements of the ethics of … Read more

4th May 2016

Some years ago I was visited by the then American ambassador to the Court of St James, Philip Lader. He … Read more

20th April 2015

The strangest and most dramatic element of the service on Yom Kippur, set out in Acharei Mot (Lev. 16:7-22), was … Read more

7th April 2014

It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty days Moses had been communing with … Read more

15th April 2013

At the centre of the mosaic books is Vayikra. At the centre of Vayikra is the “holiness code” (chapter 19) … Read more

1st May 2012

The strangest element of the service on Yom Kippur, set out in Acharei Mot (Lev. 16: 7-22), was the ritual of the … Read more

16th April 2011

I had been engaged in dialogue for two years with an imam from the Middle East, a gentle and seemingly … Read more

24th April 2010

On this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean … Read more