ACHAREY MOT – KEDOSHIM
The Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Sedras 3-8 Iyar 5786 FROM THE TORAH Leviticus 16:1-20:27 The first of this week’s double Sedra, Acharey Mot, continues the theme of purity established in the preceding Sedras of Tazria and Metsora. The maintenance of practical purity in the life of Israel comes to a climax in the opening verses of…
27/28. TAZRIA-METSORA 5786
FROM THE TORAH Leviticus 12:1-15:33 In the preceding Sedra Shemini, the Eternal charges Moses and Aaron with rules to teach the Children of Israel: how to distinguish between the sacred and the common, the pure and the impure, the “clean” and “unclean,” what is permitted and what is forbidden, the authorized and the spurious, in…
26. SHEMINI 5786
FROM THE TORAH Leviticus 9:1-11:47 At the conclusion of the previous Sedra Tsav, Moses presided over the offerings of ordination for Aaron and his sons. He sprinkled some of the Anointing Oil and some of the blood from the Altar upon Aaron and his vestments and upon his sons and their vestments, thereby sanctifying all…
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