Lev 26:3-27:34

We all love to hear the words “I love you.” In truth, everyone enjoys having kind words spoken to them and about them. However, the beauty of that language can quickly evaporate when there is no substance to go along with it…

Lev 25:1-26:2

In this week’s Torah portion, we read about this seven-year cycle, the shemitah or sabbath (sabbatical) year, and why God instituted it…

Lev 21:1-24:23

The festival is one of the seven great festivals appointed by God to be celebrated on the first day of the seventh month of the Jewish calendar, Tishrei.  All seven of these holy days are found in the Bible in Leviticus chapter 23 as well as in a number of other passages in the Pentateuch/Torah.  There is also a vast amount of rabbinic material describing the festivals and how they should be observed…

Lev 19:1-20:27

Leviticus 19:2 – “You shall be holy, for I, the LORD your God, am holy.”
The weekly torah portion “kedoshim” in Leviticus 19-20 comes at the end of a long series of commandments for moral and spiritual purity. In some ways, it summarizes the goal of all the commandments – to make us holy as He is holy…

Lev 12:1-13:59

Abject confession:  This is not the Torah portion I would have chosen to comment on.  My taste would run more toward Moses’ encounter with the burning bush or Abraham’s sacrificing Isaac or Israel’s assembly before the shaking quaking Mt. Sinai.  But….knowing that “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God..that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2Timothy 3:16, 17), I’m confident that there is hidden treasure in these chapters…