by Chavi | May 17, 2017 | Parshat Hashavua, Vayikra
By Batya Hefter The blessings in parshat b’chukotai echo of gan eden, “I will make you fruitful and multiply you’, ‘the trees of the field shall yield their fruit’, and most significantly, “ and I will walk among you’, restoring the harmonious pre-chet adam HaRishon...
by Chavi | May 8, 2017 | Parshat Hashavua, Vayikra
By Batya Hefter Contact with death can cause crises of faith. Believers often despair of the meaning of their own existence and doubt in a benevolent God creeps in. At such times, it is not apparent that the events in the world are for the best. In this week’s parsha,...
by Chavi | May 1, 2017 | Parshat Hashavua, Vayikra
by: Batya Hefter “Al ta’ashok“: Learning to give of ourselves Parshat Kedoshim provides an example of how Rabbi Mordechai Yosef, the Mei HaShiloach, casts a spiritual dimension on a halachic obligation. In a strictly halachic context, the phrase “Do...
by Wbm | Sep 11, 2016 | Parshat Hashavua, Vayikra
By Batya Hefter What spiritual lessons can be learned from the laws of impurity/ tumah as they relate to bodily discharges; this is the subject of the end of parshat metzora vayikra 15? There is a shocking discrepancy in severity of the impurity of a zav/ zava as...
