Posts Tagged: Emor
How Does ‘An Eye for an Eye’ Hold Up Today?
“An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” is one of the best-known rules not only in the Torah, but universally. It...
Is God Protecting Us?
JNS.org - It’s been a tumultuous, emotional roller coaster of a week in Israel and around the Jewish world: Memorials, moments of silence and then...
Parshat Emor: A Case of Mistaken Identity
In January 1961, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986) was approached with a strange and somewhat disturbing halakhic question. At the time, Rabbi Feinstein was renowned as...
The Cost of Alienation and Assimilation on Judaism
It is one of the most problematic stories in the Torah. A young man, who was the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man,...
Parshat Emor and Coronavirus: The Only Guarantee Is Uncertainty
There is something very strange about the festival of Sukkot, on which our parsha is the primary source. On the one hand, it is the...
Parshat Emor: Three Versions of Shabbat
There is something unique about the way parshat Emor speaks about Shabbat. It calls it a mo’ed and a mikra kodesh when, in the conventional...
As Jews, We Must Hold Ourselves to Higher Standards
A President guilty of sexual abuse. A Prime Minister indicted on charges of corruption and bribery. Rabbis in several countries accused of financial impropriety, sexual...
Leaders Must Not be Afraid of Greatness
Embedded in this week's parsha are two of the most fundamental commands of Judaism - commands that touch on the very nature of Jewish identity. Do...
Reflections on Yom Hazikaron for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers & Victims of Terror
As we approach the double days of Israel's Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzma'ut this week, I once again reflected on the meaning of this juxtaposition...
Emor: How to Speak – The Secret to Influencing Others
To Rebuke or to Ignore? To Fight or to Accept? When witnessing a transgression our first inclination may be to rebuke the transgressor, and chastise...
