This week’s portion goes into the details concerning childbirth, leprosy and marital /personal purity. There is a lot we could explore in this portion even though these are probably the chapters most of us would want to skip over. For…

In this week’s Torah portion we read about the end of the Priests ordination. For seven days the Priests have been ministering inside the “Mishkan—Tabernacle.” This portion immediately launches into what happened “...on the eighth day…” For this observation, I…

This week we read basically a reiteration of the previous portion. It goes through the 5 different types of offerings, as well as the particularities concerning each. It then finishes with the inauguration of the Priesthood and the Tabernacle. Normally,…

This week we begin reading a new book in the Torah, the book of Leviticus. I know when everyone thinks about the book of Leviticus what probably immediately comes to mind are the verses, “…You shall love your neighbor as…

This week is a double portion that deals with the construction and raising of the Tabernacle. This was the first “Barn Raising,” if you could call it such, found in History; except a “Barn Raising” is when a community comes…