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Vayikra: Don’t be a Behemah or a Chayah! ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
Have you ever heard an old Jewish Bubby (Yiddish for “grandmother”) refer to wild kids as chayot or behemot? Do you know what she’s...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Dec 29, 2019
- 5 min
Vayikra: The Greatest “Cover-up” ~ Tzvi Abrahams
Vayikra כַּפָּרָה: atonement כּוֹפֶר: redemption payment כַּפֹּרֶת: the cover of the Ark כּוֹפֶר: pitch כְּפִיר: young lion כְּפוֹר:...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Nov 30, 2019
- 16 min
Tzav: Focus Is Fire ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
Tzav This week's Torah Portion describes the procedure for the sacrifice of birds to as implemented by the Kohen, namely to nip off its...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Nov 28, 2019
- 5 min
Tzav: Running after Our Desires ~ Tzvi Abrahams
Tzav מְרֻצֶה: pleasing, desirable רָצוֹן: desire/will רוּץ: run שֶׁרֶץ: rodent אֶרֶץ: earth רְצֵה: accept מְרֻצֶה: Pleasing, Desirable...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Oct 31, 2019
- 1 min
Shemini: The Simple Son: Dense or Perfect? ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
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yehoshua steinberg
- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
Shemini: Of Corpses and Carcasses ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
In the aftermath of the Ten Spies fiasco, the Jewish people were doomed to remain in the wilderness for forty years until the rise of the...
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Rabbi Tzvi Abrahams
- Oct 29, 2019
- 6 min
Shemini: Seven Reasons Why the Pig Returns ~ Tzvi Abrahams
חוֹזֶר: return, renege, seek out חַזֶרֶת: lettuce מַחְזוֹר:machzor חַזִיר: pig חוֹזֶר: Return, Renege, Seek Out Besides for its plain...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Sep 30, 2019
- 10 min
Tazria: Of Lepers and Grasshoppers ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
Article Abstract: The root גבח appears in all of Scripture only in this week’s Torah portion, Tazria, in connection with the “leprosy”...
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Reuvan Chaim Klein
- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
Tazria-HaChodesh: Old Month versus New Month ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
This Shabbat we read Parshat HaChodesh, the last of four special Torah readings before Pesach. Parshat HaChodesh establishes Nissan as...
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Reuvan Chaim Klein
- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
Tazria-Metzora: Approaching Reproaching ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the father of contemporary conservatism, purportedly said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is...
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Rabbi Tzvi Abrahams
- Sep 28, 2019
- 6 min
Tazria: The True Measure of a Man ~ Tzvi Abrahams
שְׂעִיר: goat שְׂעוֹרָה: barley שֵׂעָר: hair שְׂעָרָה: tempest חוּט הַשַׂעַר: hairsbreadth וְשֵׂעָר בַּנֶּגַע הָפַךְ לָבָן/And the hair...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Aug 31, 2019
- 9 min
Metzora: The Place Where I Belong, My Ken ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
Article abstract for Metzora: As part of the leper’s purification process following his affliction with tazraat, this week’s portion...
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Rabbi Tzvi Abrahams
- Aug 29, 2019
- 6 min
Metzora: We Love to Bug ~ Tzvi Abrahams
זְבוּב: fly דַּבְּרוּ אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וַאֲמַרְתֶּם אֲלֵהֶם אִישׁ אִישׁ כִּי יִהְיֶה זָב מִבְּשָׂרוֹ זוֹבוֹ טָמֵא הוּא Speak to the...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Jul 31, 2019
- 15 min
Acharei Mot: Mixed Up and Worn out ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
The word “tevel”(תבל) appears once in Parashat Acharei Mot and once in Parshat Kedoshim, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. In both...
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rabbircklein
- Jul 30, 2019
- 3 min
Acharei Mot: Confronting Death ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
The Torah introduces the laws of the sacrificial services of Yom Kippur by noting that G-d relayed them to Moses after the...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Jul 3, 2019
- 5 min
Kedoshim: Born to Produce ~ Tzvi Abrahams
חוֹרֶף: winter חֶרְפָּה: disgrace, shameful, detested חַרִיף: sharp, strong, biting נֶחֶרֶפֶת: designated, singled out וְאִישׁ כִּי...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Jul 2, 2019
- 3 min
Kedoshim: Burke and Rebuke ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the father of contemporary conservatism, purportedly said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Jul 1, 2019
- 10 min
Kedoshim: Sacrifice Delayed, Sacrifice Denied - Yehoshua Steinberg
A discussion of the rare scriptural word פגול (abominable, loathsome), and its relationship with the range of other words containing the...
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Reuvan Chaim Klein
- Jun 2, 2019
- 5 min
Acharei-Kedoshim: The Realm of the Undertaker ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
In this essay we will explore the different words for gehinnom (commonly translated as “hell” or “purgatory”). The Talmud (Eruvin 19a)...
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yehoshua steinberg
- May 31, 2019
- 9 min
Emor: Branching Out ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
אנו מתנצלים על ההפוגה בפרסום המאמרים בשבועות האחרונים עקב פטירתה של אמו האהובה ע"ה של הרב שטיינברג. אצילותה, רוחה ונשמתה האיתנה, ואהבתה...
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