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From the blog of David Kolinsky at The Times of Israel

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Last week’s blog emphasized that embedded within the tapestry of our lives there are specific experiences created for us by God that we should focus on and engage. To convey this idea, the par...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The verb KaHaeN (כהן) means “to perform with precise and mindful intention” or “to give something precise and mindful attention.”1 Even though, in Judaism, we are divided into Kohanim...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In the chapter before parashat Sh’mini (chapter 8 of Leviticus), Moshe anoints not only Aharon, but also all that is in the mishkan, the altar, the basin and its base. The verb for anointing, ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In Judaism, the two most common names for God are Elohim and the tetragrammaton (Y-H-W-H). The word Elohim (אלהים) is the plural for Eloah (אלוה) which evolved from the root LaWaH (לו...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Of the 12 occurrences of the expression: לכהן לי “for the purpose of performing the priestly functions for me,” half are to be found in parashat T’tsaweh. Allegorically, this express...

ICONS, eh? The word is over-used. Maybe, at this point in the series, I should look up what it means. I’ve several prestigious dictionaries on my shelves – Oxford, Chambers, Lidl – but as I can’t be bothered getting out of my seat to look at them, I’ll just Google it. “A devotional painting, usually on wood, of Christ.” Crikey, so to say. That’s not it. “A small picture or sign on a computer screen.” Nope. Here’s something: “A person or thing regarded as a representa...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The purpose of life is to live it. The allegory of Torah reiterates this over and again. In parashat Mishpatim. The text says: מכשפה לא תחיה “A witch, you shall not allow to live.�...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, As an archetype, Pharaoh is not a bad actor, he is simply an aspect of each one of us, our being in denial and thus chaotically attending to too many things in experience.1 The same is true for ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The most frequently used names that refer to G-d in the Torah are the tetragrammaton (YHWH), Elohim, El and El Shaddai. In the previous parshah, the text connects the tetragrammaton with the ver...