Leviticus | Vayikra
When my friend Sulieman Khatib, one of the Palestinian leaders of Combatants for Peace, came to speak at the synagogue I belong to in Asheville, he said, “When we Israelis and Palestinians look at the land we share, do we think, the land belongs to us, or do we think, we belong to the land?”
READ MOREThe book of Vayikra/Leviticus begins and ends with the Great Animating Spirit calling out to us: Do this, so I can animate and sustain all life. Stay close to me, so my vitality animates earth and the heavens to support life.
READ MOREThis week’s concluding Torah portion to the book of Leviticus/Vayikra offers a powerful metaphor for a question that haunts me every day and that we will explore in our upcoming Zoom series (details below). In the context of the story, B’chukotai refers to what happens when we walk or don’t walk in the way of how […]
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