Parasha: Bechukotai

Study to Learn; Learn to Do

If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out ... (Leviticus 26:3) This week's Torah portion begins by saying, "If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out ... " (Leviticus 26:3). Isn't that a bit redundant? What is the difference between (1) walking in the statutes, (2) keeping the commandments and (3) carrying them out?
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Parasha: Behar

The Jubilee Year

You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. (Leviticus 25:8) The sabbatical year occurred once every seven years. God commanded the children of Israel to count off seven full sabbatical cycles. Seven cycles of seven years multiplies out to forty-nine years. The fiftieth year was called the
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Parasha: Emor

The LORD's Appointed Times

Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, "The LORD's appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations--My appointed times are these." (Leviticus 23:2) The Bible refers to the Tabernacle as the Ohel Moed (אהל מעד), a term that our English Bibles translate as "Tent of Meeting." The word moed can refer to an appointed time or place. The Tabernacle was God's appointed place to meet with
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Parasha: Kedoshim

Holiness and Honesty

One of the laws of holiness states, "You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another" (Leviticus 19:11). Have you ever been ripped off by a religious person? It's not surprising when we are cheated by people of the world. But it is disconcerting when a professing Christian or an observant Jew deceives or financially abuses us. We expect more from the religious person than a secular
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Parasha: Passover

Nachshon's Leap

In the traditional Jewish telling of the crossing of the Red Sea, Nachshon ben Amminadab, the prince over the tribe of Judah, plays an important role. Who is Nachshon? His name is mentioned six times in the Torah. To believers his name is familiar from the genealogies of the Master in Matthew 1 and Luke 3. Nachshon was one of the ancestors of Yeshua. The Torah refers to him as
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Parasha: Acharei Mot

A Personal Day of Atonement

He shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their impurities. (Leviticus 16:16) The rituals for Yom Kippur teach us about the distance between man and God. There is a deadly conceit in
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