Parsha 32 of 54 · Sefer Vayikra
6 pieces on Parshas Behar, one for each year it was written. Each opens as a PDF.
5781–82 · Year 1 · 1 page
Parshas Behar–Bechukosai
May 7-8, 2021 25-26 Iyar, 5781 Faith This week’s pairing of Parshas is about emuna. Hashem reiterated in the beginning of Behar, the laws that were stated at Har Sinai originally. One may ask, why did Hashem repeat here, that which was said on Har Sinai,…
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5782–83 · Year 2 · 2 pages
In this week’s Parsha- Behar we are taught the laws of Shmita, Yovel, and laws of lending (usury, interest etc.) and release from debt. The first Rashi on the Parsha answers a simple question, which is why at this section of the Torah-does the posuk…
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5783–84 · Year 3 · 2 pages
Parshas Behar–Bechukosai
This week’s pairing of the Parshas ends the book of Vayikra. The theme of the Sefer is sacrifice, as most of the sefer deals with Korbanos, and the goal is to work on being holy, which covers both Israelites and Kohanim. The concluding two Parshas, in some…
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5784–85 · Year 4 · 2 pages
This week’s Parsha is Behar, which begins with the commandments of leaving your fields to rest for a year after a 6-year cycle and an additional year called Yovel every 49th year. In this process, all land is returned to its original owners, slaves go free,…
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5785–86 · Year 5 · 1 page
Parshas Behar–Bechukosai
This past week, we witnessed the horrific murder of two people because they were Jewish, not on the streets of Israel or some far-flung place, but the streets of Washington, DC, the US’s capital. I don’t want to write specifically about that, but I want to…
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5786–87 · Year 6 · 2 pages
Parshas Behar–Bechukosai
This week, once again, is a double parsha of Behar and Bechukosai, which discuss the Shnas Hashmita and the Yovel year that follows the 7 cycles of shmita (i.e., the 50th year). In Bechukosai, Hashem affirms that keeping the laws will result in material…
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