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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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Dec 30, 20192 min read
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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:...
yehoshua steinberg
Dec 29, 20195 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
Nov 30, 201916 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
Nov 28, 20195 min read
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Shemini: The Simple Son: Dense or Perfect? ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
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Oct 31, 20191 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
Oct 30, 20194 min read
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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...

Rabbi Tzvi Abrahams
Oct 29, 20196 min read
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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”...
yehoshua steinberg
Sep 30, 201910 min read
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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...
Reuvan Chaim Klein
Sep 29, 20193 min read
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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...
Reuvan Chaim Klein
Sep 29, 20193 min read
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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...

Rabbi Tzvi Abrahams
Sep 28, 20196 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
Aug 31, 20199 min read
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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...

Rabbi Tzvi Abrahams
Aug 29, 20196 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
Jul 31, 201915 min read
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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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Jul 30, 20193 min read
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Kedoshim: Born to Produce ~ Tzvi Abrahams
חוֹרֶף: winter חֶרְפָּה: disgrace, shameful, detested חַרִיף: sharp, strong, biting נֶחֶרֶפֶת: designated, singled out וְאִישׁ כִּי...
yehoshua steinberg
Jul 3, 20195 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
Jul 2, 20193 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
Jul 1, 201910 min read
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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)...
Reuvan Chaim Klein
Jun 2, 20195 min read
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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...
yehoshua steinberg
May 31, 20199 min read
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