By Rabbi Barry Kornblau I once played with a sheep in the morning and then ate it for dinner that night. At the time, I was a non-observant teenager living with a farm family in the French countryside, near the city of Le Mans. They kept a lamb tied up near a hay loft […]
By Candace Nachman Parshas Shemini is dedicated by Baruch and Ora Sheinson, in honor of Aryeh Moshe Sheinson. View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet In this week’s Torah portion, Shemini, the Jewish people are given the laws concerning fish consumption. Leviticus 11:9-12 explains that all creatures in the waters, in the seas, and […]
By Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. Parshat Tzav is dedicated in memory of Marvin and Jeanne Eder, may their memory be a blessing, by Bob and Barbara Nieder. View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet And that which is left thereof [from the meal-offering] shall Aaron and his sons eat; it shall be eaten […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Levin and Rabbi Yonatan Neril[1] The Parsha of Vakiyra is dedicated by Mira Chaya Mellman, in the memory of the grandmothers for whom I am named: Rebecca Warach, Mollye Shapiro, and Clara Mellman, z”l. View a Printable Version| View a Source Sheet This week’s Torah portion of Vayikra describes the various […]
By Rabbi Eliezer Shore, PhD The Parsha of Pekudei is dedicated by Baruch and Ora Sheinson, in honor of Mordechai Yaakov Sheinson. View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet Pekudei is the parsha (Torah portion) of details.[1] This short, seemingly redundant parsha does little more than sum up the information presented already twice in […]
