This week’s double portion, Acharei Mot – Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1–20:27), offers profound guidance, not just in law and ritual, but in how we relate to one another with justice, dignity, and ...

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Our guest this week is Rabbi Elie Abadie, founding rabbi and leader of The Edmund J. Safra synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Abadie was born in Beirut Lebanon and grew up in Mexico City, coming to the ...

Editor's note: This year the eighth day of Passover, kept only in the Diaspora, fell on the Sabbath, so while Jews in Israel read Parshat Acharei Mot, the Sabbath Torah portion, Jews in the Diaspora ...

The answer lies in the two parashiyot that this verse connects: Acharei Mot and Kedoshim. The laws that are laid out cover both our spiritual lives (with an outline of the Yom Kippur service) and our ...

Lisa Rothstein Goldberg studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR) in New York. Lisa has wanted to be a rabbi since her sophomore year of college. The more she studied Judaism, the more ...

Why were Nadav and Avihu, two of Aaron’s sons, killed? The Torah states their deaths occurred when they brought an esh zarah (foreign fire) into the Temple (Leviticus 10:1). But what was the nature of ...

The entire Book of Leviticus covers just one month – the month of Nissan, exactly one year after the Exodus, the month sandwiched between the first of Nissan in the second year after the Exodus ...

Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: ‘Holiness,’ ‘abstinence,’ and what lies between Don’t aim for lofty, angelic separation “like Mine” but live a human holiness – the kind of life for which I created the ...

From a literal perspective, the names of the Torah portions consist of nothing more than the first major word of the part of the Torah that is read during a given Shabbat. It can, however, be argued ...

Sidrah Acharei Mot-Kedoshim “Any person, whether a native or a stranger, who eats what has died or has been torn by beasts shall wash his clothes, bathe in water and remain impure until the evening” ...