Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Tazria – Metzora THIS SHALL BE THE LAW OF THE PERSON AFFLICTED WITH LEPROSY, ON THE DAY OF HIS CLEANSING: HE SHALL BE BROUGHT TO THE PRIEST. THE PRIEST SHALL GO OUTSIDE THE CAMP, AND THE PRIEST SHALL LOOK, AND BEHOLD, THE LESION OF LEPROSY HAS HEALED IN THE AFFLICTED PERSON. THEN THE PRIEST SHALL ORDER, AND THE PERSON TO BE CLEANSED SHALL TAKE TWO LIVE, CLEAN BIRDS, A CEDAR STICK, A STRIP OF CRIMSON...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Achary Mot – Kedoshim YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT A PERVERSION OF JUSTICE WITH MEASURES, WEIGHTS, OR LIQUID MEASURES. YOU SHALL HAVE TRUE SCALES, TRUE WEIGHTS, A TRUE EPHAH, AND A TRUE HIN. I AM THE LORD, YOUR GOD, WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. (Vayikra 19:35-36) It forbids us even to have an imperfect weight or measure in our possession, it forbids us to be careless in measuring or weighing our...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Shmini BUT THESE YOU SHALL NOT EAT AMONG THOSE THAT BRING UP THE CUD AND THOSE THAT HAVE A CLOVEN HOOF: THE CAMEL, BECAUSE IT BRINGS UP ITS CUD, BUT DOES NOT HAVE A CLOVEN HOOF; IT IS UNCLEAN FOR YOU. (Vayikra 11:4) From every clean animal… R. Yudin said in the name of R. Yohanan and R. Brekhia said in the name of R. Eliezer, and R. Ya'akov of Kfar Hanin said...
(link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Tzav IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THAT VERY DAY, THAT ALL THE LEGIONS OF THE LORD WENT OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. IT IS A NIGHT OF ANTICIPATION FOR THE LORD, TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; THIS NIGHT IS THE LORD'S, GUARDING ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THROUGHOUT THEIR GENERATIONS. (Shemot 12:41-42) It is a night of anticipation – On it they were...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayikra SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY TO THEM: WHEN A MAN FROM YOU BRINGS A SACRIFICE TO THE LORD; FROM ANIMALS, FROM CATTLE OR FROM THE FLOCK YOU SHALL BRING YOUR SACRIFICE. (Vayikra 1:2) Adam ki yakriv mikem you brings]: This may be read as allowing for human sacrifice, since it could have been formulated less ambiguously as Adam mikem ki yakriv. However, Scripture has...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayakhel-Pekuday AND THE CLOUD COVERED THE TENT OF MEETING, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE. MOSES COULD NOT ENTER THE TENT OF MEETING BECAUSE THE CLOUD RESTED UPON IT AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE. WHEN THE CLOUD ROSE UP FROM OVER THE TABERNACLE, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SET OUT IN ALL THEIR JOURNEYS. BUT IF THE CLOUD DID NOT RISE UP, THEY DID NOT SET OUT UNTIL THE...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tissa AND THE LORD SAID TO MOSES: "GO, DESCEND, FOR YOUR PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT UP FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT HAVE ACTED CORRUPTLY. THEY HAVE QUICKLY TURNED AWAY FROM THE PATH THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEM; THEY HAVE MADE THEMSELVES A MOLTEN CALF! AND THEY HAVE PROSTRATED THEMSELVES BEFORE IT, SLAUGHTERED SACRIFICES TO IT, AND SAID: 'THESE ARE YOUR GODS, O ISRAEL, WHO HAVE BROUGHT YOU UP FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT.'...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Tetzave YOU SHALL MAKE HOLY GARMENTS FOR YOUR BROTHER AARON, FOR HONOR AND GLORY. (Shemot 28:2) When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom – R. Yossi bar Hanina said: This teaches us that he donned the priestly garments: there (Esther 1) it is written the splendor of the glory of his majesty, and here (Shemot 28) it is written for honor and glory. (Megilla 12a) You shall make holy garments –...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD RESTED ON MOUNT SINAI, AND THE CLOUD COVERED IT FOR SIX DAYS, AND HE CALLED TO MOSES ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM WITHIN THE CLOUD. (Shemot 24:16) AND THE CLOUD COVERED THE TENT OF MEETING, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE. (Shemot 40:34) The secret of the Tabernacle is that the Glory which abode upon Mount Sinai should abide upon it in a...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Mishpatim YOU SHALL NOT ACCEPT A BRIBE, FOR A BRIBE WILL BLIND THE CLEAR SIGHTED AND CORRUPT WORDS THAT ARE RIGHT. (Shemot 23:8) Rabbi Abahu said: Come and see how blinded are those who receive bribes. A man whose eyes bother him gives money to a physician – he may or may not be cured. These take a penny's worth and blind their eyes, for it is said: a bribe will blind...