Tag: Vayikra
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Finding Holiness in a Fractured World
Vayikra [and He called] refuses the idea that faith should be simple, tidy, or continuous. It understands that life is fractured, and that a human being often comes to the holy place carrying contradiction. Sometimes we arrive with devotion. Sometimes we arrive with numbness. Sometimes we arrive because something inside us has gone wrong, and…
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The Holiness of Showing Up: A Shabbat Sermon on Nearness and Connection
In this special interfaith Shabbat sermon for Parashat Vayikra, Rabbi Adrian M. Schell reflects on the meaning of korban, often translated as “sacrifice”, and its deeper message of karov, nearness. What does it mean to truly draw close to one another, especially when it’s not easy? And how can small, quiet moments become sacred offerings…
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Shabbat Zachor: God’s outcry
It is an interesting co-incidence that on this Shabbat we commemorate all the violent and destructive attacks on the Jewish people in the past while we also begin with the reading of the third book of our Torah—Leviticus, Vayikra in Hebrew.Leviticus is known for its long and detailed descriptions on how and when to bring…
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Seid Heilig! – Überlegungen zum Buch Waijkra
Vor zwei Wochen haben wir mit der Lesung des dritten Buches in der Torah begonnen. Es trägt verschiedene Namen. Im Deutschen sagt man häufig: „das dritte Buch Moses“. Oder Levitikus, in Anspielung auf den Stamm der Leviten, aus dem die Priester abstammten. In der frühen rabbinischen Literatur wurde häufig von der „Lehre der Priester, Torat…
