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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 previous parashah, God sent us to dispose ourselves (ארץ)1 to what oppressively draws in from experience (Canaan).2 Failing that, God encouraged us to repetitively strive (TsiTsiT)3 to...

From the blog of David Kolinsky at The Times of Israel

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, One must be vigilant when observing experience, not only to guard against dangers, but also to become aware of the opportunities that lay ahead. The children of Israel, representing the differen...

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...