This week’s reading continues to detail the laws of sacrifice.  Here we shall deal with the connection between sacrifice and prayer, based on the assertion by Rabbi Joshua ben Levi:  “The prayers were instituted...

In Tzav part, two will focus on how G-D instructed Moses to assemble the whole community at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for the priests’ ordination. Moses brought Aaron and his sons...

\\ Bring a Sacrifice | Parshat Tzav Bringing a sacrifice was the most important part of a connection with G-D. This idea of coming close the creator intrigues the seeker. We discover in the...

> Tzav, Tsav, Zav, Sav, or in Biblical Hebrew Ṣaw (צַו — Hebrew for “command,” the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 25thweekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the book of Leviticus....

Chapter 4 of Leviticus deals entirely with sin-offerings: those brought by a person who incurs guilt unwittingly (vv. 2, 27-35); by the high priest who has incurred guilt “so that blame falls upon the...

The Sages’ saying, “Where the repentant stand, even the completely righteous cannot stand,”  has been used extensively in Jewish thought on the virtues of repentance and the advantage of the repentant over the righteous. ...

Rod Bryant provides a clear understanding of the details of the offerings in “Taming the Beast” As Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi points out, the verse does not say, “a man of you...

Discover the maxim that states, You get what you pay for. One’s spiritual reward in this world is directly proportionate to the effort expended in the performance of G-D’s will. Meaning, you get what...

Rabbi Oliver shares the idea of how the righteous non-Jew can help to blot out the name of Amalek and live a life connected to HaShem. Amalek, is a name of a nomadic nation...

Ki Tisa,  (כִּי תִשָּׂא — Hebrew for “when you take,” the sixth and seventh words, and first distinctive words in the parashah) is the 21st weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the book of...