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 ...

Up until two weeks ago, I thought that Vayikra, Leviticus, was the least relevant – and the most alienating – of the Books of Moses. After all, why would I want to read about animal sacrifices and ...

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Read Beth Kissileff's review of The Hidden Order of Intimacy by Aviva Zornberg. After writing a book about Genesis, another about Exodus, and another about Numbers, you were hesitant to write about ...

Arguing that the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra), dealing mainly with the laws of sacrifices in the Tabernacle, is likely the Torah’s “most ambiguous book,” Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has made it the ...

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 ...

In synagogues around the world on April 1, the annual Torah reading cycle will turn to the book of Leviticus. I am looking forward to it. Few synagogue goers or Bible readers seem to share my ...