This is Torah Talk for the week of May 20th, 2018 Num. 5:12 If any man’s wife has gone astray [כי-תשטה אשתו] and broken faith with him … “Going astray” is a familiar biblical topic — and so is a woman cheating on her husband.  But the verb used for it in this passage about […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 13th, 2018 Num. 3:7 They shall perform duties for him and for the whole community before the Tent of Meeting, doing the work of the Tabernacle. But how can the Tabernacle and the Tent of Meeting be the same thing when the Tent of Meeting existed — […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 6th, 2018 Lev. 27:2-3 … When anyone explicitly vows to the Lord the equivalent for a human being [בערכך נפשות], the following scale shall apply. But what is an ערכך? This week’s handout:  32-33 Behar-Behukkotai 5778 Donate: https://www.paypal.me/mcarasik

This is Torah Talk for the week of April 29th, 2018 Lev. 23:5   In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, there shall be a passover offering to the Lord, 6 and on the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread for […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of April 22nd, 2018 Lev. 18:21 Do not allow any of your offspring to be offered up to Molech, and do not profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. Jacob Milgrom: “But who is Molech?” This week’s handout:  29-30 Aharei Mot-Kedoshim 5778 Donate: https://www.paypal.me/mcarasik

This is Torah Talk for the week of April 15th, 2018 Lev. 6:2 This is the ritual of the burnt offering: Lev. 6:7 And this is the ritual of the meal offering: Lev. 6:18 This is the ritual of the sin offering: Lev. 7:1 This is the ritual of the guilt offering: So why is Lev […]

This is Torah Talk for the weeks of March 25th and April 8th, 2018 Lev. 11:46      These are the instructions concerning animals, birds, all living creatures that move in water, and all creatures that swarm on earth, 47 for distinguishing between the unclean and the clean, between the living things that may be eaten […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of March 18th, 2018 Leviticus 1 – 5 describes the burnt offering, the meal offering, the whole offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering.  So does Leviticus 6-7! What’s going on?  Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber, channeling R. David Tzvi Hoffman, explains. This week’s handout:  25 Tzav 5778 […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of February 4th, 2018 Exod. 21:5  But if the slave declares, “I love my master, and my wife and children: I do not wish to go free,” 6 his master shall take him before God. He shall be brought to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall […]

This is Torah Talk for the week of January 21st, 2018 Exod. 14:13  But Moses said to the people, “Have no fear! Stand by, and witness the deliverance which the Lord will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today [כי אשר ראיתם את מצרים היום] you will never see again.” But is […]