Vayikra
We can offer our objects. Or we can offer our selves.
When one wishes to come close, one may do so in a variety of ways, to overcome a variety of distances: There are Offerings of Ascent, coming close elevating upward; Meal Offerings, coming close through flour and oil; Peace Offerings, coming close in peace; Mistake Offerings, coming close by removing the wrinkles of man; Guilt Offerings, coming close by making whole the breaks. The world calls these “sacrifices,” but what they really are is a soul coming close to its source.
Money and Spirituality (Part 4/5)
In part four of “Money and Spirituality,” the true value of man is discussed, and the simultaneously socialist and capitalist approach of the Torah elucidated.
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Vayikra: The Tzaddik
Based on the insight of the Alter Rebbe and the Rebbe Rashab, the concept of a true tzaddik is explored in the context of the nature of this world.
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Vayikra: Restoring the Balance
When we are able to revisit our birthing, prior to the scars we gathered through life, we achieve two things: We see how things ought to be, and we are empowered to realign who we have become today with who we truly are.
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Vayikra: Absolute Evil?
The question becomes not how or why can evil exist in the presence of a benevolent G-d, but what allowed for it to emerge in the first place, and above all: What are we to do about it?
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Fireproof Faith
A story about a fire that burns Rabbi Shmuel Munkes’s home to the ground and his unusual reaction.
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Primordial Man
The bearer of an offering is referred to as an “adam” instead of “ishi.” While both translate to “man,” the former implies that one must emulate Adam when bringing an offering.
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True Sacrifice
The sacrifices one made during Temple times were not simple animal offerings, but symbolic offerings of man’s inner beast.
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Joy in Four Dimensions
The Torah teaches us that joy should be a constant in life. However, there are multiple degrees of joy. What are they?
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A Feast and a Fast
Insight from the Talmud provides the framework for this examination of the decreed annihilation of the Jews of the Persian Empire.
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