Mining The Riches Of The Parsha

10@9 How Kosher Works Today - May 13, 2020 by Rabbi Michael Whitman

10@9 is 10 minutes (approximately) of Zoom Torah study every weekday morning at 9 a.m. Topics range from the weekly Parsha, current issues in Jewish Law, or a Torah perspective on what is happening in the world. Feel free to suggest a topic - just email me: [email protected].

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10@9 is 10 minutes (approximately) of Zoom Torah study every weekday morning at 9 a.m. Topics range from the weekly Parsha, current issues in Jewish Law, or a Torah perspective on what is happening in the world. Feel free to suggest a topic - just email me: [email protected].

Join us on Zoom at:

www.adath.ca/page_zoom.html

Subscribe to my YouTube channel at:

tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

10@9 is 10 minutes (approximately) of Zoom Torah study every weekday morning at 9 a.m. Topics range from the weekly Parsha, current issues in Jewish Law, or a Torah perspective on what is happening in the world. Feel free to suggest a topic - just email me: [email protected].

Join us on Zoom at:

www.adath.ca/page_zoom.html

Subscribe to my YouTube channel at:

tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

10@9 is 10 minutes (approximately) of Zoom Torah study every weekday morning at 9 a.m. Topics range from the weekly Parsha, current issues in Jewish Law, or a Torah perspective on what is happening in the world. Feel free to suggest a topic - just email me: [email protected].

Join us on Zoom at:

https://www.adath.ca/page_zoom.html

Subscribe to my YouTube channel at:

https://tinyurl.com/adathyoutube

We discuss celebrating on Lag B'Omer in tribute to Rabbi Akiva, and to connect with Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's Kabbala worldview that senses more to the world than we see, insights into the Mitzvah to not cause pain through speech, and supporting ourselves and each other before we fall.

We discuss Erachin - the strange valuation of a person at the end of the Parsha and Book of VaYikra and the "sin" of Holocaust survivors, from Rav Yehuda Amital on the transition from the desert to the city, and the connection between Shavuot and Yom Yerushalayim, the metamorphosis from tearing Kriya to blessing Shehechiyanu, and the fulfillment of prophecies today in Jerusalem.

We discuss the special holiness of a Kohein (priest) and how we can all attain it, plus how this insight gives us the fortitude to face the challenges of this pandemic. And we discuss the role of Peshara (settlement or compromise) within Jewish law, and the lessons it teaches us about capital punishment in our Parsha, and a very practical lesson in our lives.

We discuss how honouring our parents and our roots leads us to holiness, the significance of a Kohein attending to the burial of a Met Mitzvah - one whose body is unattended, and the variable aspect of sanctifying God's Name.

We discuss a lesson in respecting Mitzvot from covering the blood, the priority of avoiding dissent among siblings, and the sin of revenge and cursing the blind - the purpose of the Mitzvot is to make us holy/better.