Creating Conscious Community is the overriding theme of the Book of Leviticus.
Each Parsha takes us to a new level of understanding in building a community and a society that is based upon personal and collective accountability before the Source of All, with ourselves, with each other, with animals and with the land.
Read MoreLast week the Book of Numbers, VaYikra, opened with animal sacrifices and how animals and other kinds of offerings were intended to draw the people closer (korban) to God and to each other.
Read MoreThis past Shabbat we concluded the Book of Exodus with establishment of the Mishkan, the sacred structure. So what now? Can the Israelites now continue on their journey to the Land of Promise?
Read Morepect of mourning that is still observed. In spite of the loss, the day is an affirmation of life.Tonight is the 33rd day of the Omer. Known throughout time as Lag B’Omer it is a special day during the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot. After an intense four weeks of planting and cultivating the land there is a reprieve. Our sages also credit the day with the lifting of a plague. Some scholars say that was the day the fighting ended between the Roman legions and the Jewish rebels. There is an as
Read MoreThe first several verses of Parsha Tazria describe a healing process for women postpartum. How does this fit into the narrative of Leviticus?
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