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Ari SacherThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary‑General of Hezbollah from 1992 until his death in 2024, once famously said, “We have discovered how to hit the Jews...
The Torah [Vayikra 12:3] commands that a male child be circumcised on “the eighth day”. Why not any earlier? Perhaps this is a biological...
The opening chapters of the Book of Vayikra map out the world of sacrifices offered on the altar. Sacrifices are not one-dimensional. Some sacrifices...
The Portion of Vayikra begins with a simple but loaded verb [Vayikra 1:1]: “[G-d] called (Vayikra).” Before law, before procedure, before...
The story of the construction of the Tabernacle (Mishkan) is one of the most remarkable moments in the Torah. A nation that only recently left slavery...
I must have read the Book of Esther (Megillah) hundreds of times. So it comes as a surprise that this year I discovered something that I had never...
The Tabernacle (Mishkan) accompanied the Jewish people from shortly after the Exodus until it was replaced by the Holy Temple (Beit HaMikdash) built...