Posts Tagged: Parshat Emor
Many Religious People Are Not Altruistic; the Torah Asks Us to Do Better
There is a widely held view that people of faith are kinder and more altruistic than non-believers. Let’s face it, we all think that religious...
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: Is the Greatest Danger Close to Home?
If you were on the lookout for a bizarre news headline this week, I don’t think you could have beaten this one: “Shock After Christian...
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...
