Words for Shabbat - A community blog for this week's parashah
The Book of Leviticus
Words for Shabbat
""Turn it over and turn it over, be absorbed in it" is what is said about the Torah: Study the Torah from all sides, because each time a different and new aspect and interpretation of the Torah can be revealed. This year we are renewing ourselves with a new section in the newsletter: "Words for Shabbat" - each week we will publish in the newsletter and on the Beit Tefilla website a Torah passage - a few words about the week's parashat from one of the community members and Beit Tefilla staff. And just as their faces are different, so are their opinions - we will wait to read the personal interpretation and learn what the encounter with the parashat brings up in them.
Parashat Vayikra
On the Distinction Between Compassionate Sacrifice and Immoral Sacrifice by Rani Yeger
Parashat Tzav
Rivi Dror on the Tzav Affair: A Light That Does Not Consume: Starting Over in the Midst of a Burning Reality
Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach
On the Connection Between Passover and Song of Songs – Rabbi Esteban Gottfried
Parashat Shemini
Parashat Shemini: Between Responsibility and Guilt – Leadership in Times of Crisis. By Ronen Keller
Parashat Tazria-Metzora
Dr. Esti Doron on the Parshat Tazria-Metzora: The path to closeness sometimes goes through distance, stopping, and a process of return.
Parashat Acharei Mot–Kedoshim
"and the land will not vomit you out"
Yaakov Castel on the Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
Parshat Behar-Bechukotai
"And your brother shall live with you" – On mental health in the weekly Torah portion"
Rabbi Kobi Weiss on Parshat Behar-Bechukotai
