by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
This week’s Torah portion describes the first census of the children of Israel. One of God’s instructions to Moses is that he was not to count the tribe of Levi among the other tribes. They were to be counted separately. Later, after the census of everyone else was...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
This week’s Torah portion includes the rules for the Jubilee Year. As we read in this passage, the Torah commands that every fifty years, two laws would take effect. All Israelite slaves would be freed, and all lands would be redistributed back to their original...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
The opening verses of this week’s parashah deal with some of the laws of the purity of the kohanim, the temple priests from the family of Aaron. Specifically, the text outlines restrictions on mourning practices. Among these restrictions, we read: “They shall not make...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
In this week’s Torah portion, within a lengthy list of commandments we read: In the presence of the elderly you shall rise and you shall respect an elder; you shall fear your God, I am Hashem. (Leviticus 19:32) This commandment – respect for the elderly – is easily...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Most of this week’s Torah portion Tazria-Metzora is devoted to the plague of tzara’at, usually translated as leprosy. The Torah relates detailed descriptions of different types of leprous spots, discolorations, and several other skin ailments. According to the...
