"These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai" (Leviticus 27:34). This verse is at the end of Chapter 7 of Leviticus, the third book of the Torah ...

Recently, a parishioner of mine proudly reported that she and her husband had started reading through the Bible, beginning with Genesis 1. You won’t be surprised at my warning to her: watch out for ...

Leviticus gets a bad rap. It lacks the great narratives of the first two books and is full of rules and regulations. Many of these instructions (Lev 1-10) deal with the different types of sacrifices ...

The second episode of FOX's unprecedented smash hit Empire revolved around the opening of Lucious Lyon's new club Leviticus, and since then, a lot of the show's action has taken place within those ...

Let us have a closer look—however uninviting that may seem at first—at the occasions for ritual purification in this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12–15). We might be ...

Imagine sending your little darling Rachel to a traditional boys Yeshiva. Transitionally the first place for study is the sacrifice of animals in Leviticus Why did young children begin their Jewish ...

In most traditional synagogues in the United States, the Torah reading for Yom Kippur afternoon is Leviticus 18, a chapter that speaks about sexual sins, supposedly committed by the inhabitants of ...