Tag: leviticus

Behar – Bechukotei (5773) – The Chronological Imagination

30th April 2013

I want, in this study, to look at one of Judaism’s most distinctive and least understood characteristics – the chronological … Read more

22nd April 2013

In its account of the festivals of the Jewish year, this week’s parsha contains the following statement: You shall dwell … 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

3rd April 2013

The shock is immense. For several weeks and many chapters – the longest prelude in the Torah – we have … Read more

19th March 2013

Judaism is less a philosophical system than a field of tensions – between universalism and particularism, for example, or exile … Read more

11th March 2013

The third book of the Torah is known in English as “Leviticus”, a word deriving from Greek and Latin, meaning, … Read more

14th May 2012

As I was writing this essay a newspaper headline caught my eye. It read, “The UK’s richest people have defied … Read more

7th May 2012

Our parsha begins with a restriction on the people for whom a cohen may become tamei, a word usually translated … 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

28th April 2012

The sidrot of Tazria and Metsorah contain laws which are among the most difficult to understand. They are about conditions … Read more