The Chatas and the Olah
There is a difference in halakhah between how a bird is slaughtered when brought as a qorban chatas and when brought as a qorban olah. The Torah says (Vayiqra 5:8-10) that the kohein must...
by Micha Berger · Published March 23, 2021 – י׳ בניסן תשפ״א · Last modified March 23, 2021
There is a difference in halakhah between how a bird is slaughtered when brought as a qorban chatas and when brought as a qorban olah. The Torah says (Vayiqra 5:8-10) that the kohein must...
by Micha Berger · Published March 20, 2021 – ז׳ בניסן תשפ״א · Last modified March 20, 2021
How likely is it that someone would spill ink and it would legibly depict the Mona Lisa? How likely is it to win the lottery? The two questions differ in one way… When you...
by Micha Berger · Published May 29, 2019 – כ״ד באייר תשע״ט · Last modified May 29, 2019
Parashas BeChukosai begins “אם בחוקוני – If you follow My statutes… ” and continues by promising “I will give you your rain .. in its time.” The reward for following Hashem’s laws is measure-for-measure through...
by Micha Berger · Published May 22, 2019 – י״ז באייר תשע״ט · Last modified May 22, 2019
Parashas Behar opens with the mitzvah of shemittah. The Meshakh Chokhmah’s first two entries on the parashah are about (1) what shemittah implies about how Hashem gave Eretz Yisrael to us and (2) the...
by Micha Berger · Published May 15, 2019 – י׳ באייר תשע״ט · Last modified May 15, 2019
Part of parashas Emor (VaYiqra 22:26-23:44) contains a survey of the holy days of the year. It is well known because it is also read on the first day(s) of Sukkos and in the...
3- Vayiqra / Audio / Shaarei Yosher
by Micha Berger · Published May 10, 2019 – ה׳ באייר תשע״ט · Last modified May 10, 2019
Vayiqra 19:18 famously says “VaAhavta lerei’akh kamokha, ani Hashem — love your neighbor as yourself, I Am Hashem. Rav Shimon Shkop has much to say about this pasuq, so I followed up the previous...
3- Vayiqra / Audio / Shaarei Yosher
by Micha Berger · Published May 9, 2019 – ד׳ באייר תשע״ט · Last modified May 9, 2019
Instead of discussing a comment by the Meshekh Chokhmah this week, I chose to present an idea from Rav Shimon Shkop’s introduction to Shaarei Yosher. The thoughts in this shiur are bits taken from...
by Micha Berger · Published May 1, 2019 – כ״ו בניסן תשע״ט · Last modified May 1, 2019
The Torah returns to the topic of the death of two of Aharon’s sons when introducing the Yom Kippur service in the Beis haMiqdash. What is the connection between the two topics? The Yerushalmi...
by Micha Berger · Published March 14, 2019 – ז׳ באדר ב׳ תשע״ט · Last modified March 14, 2019
There is a dispute between the Rambam and the Ramban’s Castilian school about the role of qorbanos. The Rambam apparently* says that qorbanos were proposed as a strategy to wean people away from avodah...
by Micha Berger · Published April 30, 2013 – כ׳ באייר תשע״ג · Last modified April 30, 2013
H/T RYGB, who posted this Tanchuma under the same title (“An amazing, …”). I would like to add translation. Medrash Tanchuma, Tzav (#3 in Warsaw ed., #5 in Buber ed.): “This is the Torah of...
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