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What is Holiness? We follow a path through the Book of Leviticus to discover a uniquely Jewish answer to the question.
Just in time for Passover, we find some matzah in the parsha.
Perhaps the breaking of the tablets was meant to teach "...a profound spiritual lesson: that religion itself can become an object of idolatry."
As a holiday approaches, we inevitably search for connections between it and the Torah portion that precedes it. But what could Parshat Tezaveh, the detailed list of the priestly garments, have to do with Purim?
In the midst of a long list of standard civil and criminal laws, we suddenly come upon a command to kill witches! What is this eerie law doing here. And is the Torah really so worried about the evil powers of witchcraft?
Why is the greatest moment of divine revelation filled with - of all things - Law?
See if you can guess the answer before the podcast is over.
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