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Jun 30, 2026, 7:38 PM

Breaking: Major Update on Red Heifer Program and National Training Push

A red heifer calf born last month in the hills of the Galilee has drawn renewed attention to a coordinated national effort to restore ritual purity after two thousand years. Discovered by a team member of the National Red...

May 11, 2026, 6:54 PM

What Does Shemittah Have to Do with Smartphones? – B’har-B’hukkotai 5786

So this past week, I was in a supermarket, and I went to the front desk because I could not find the Cape Cod chips in the 100-calorie bag. I am trying to eat healthily. ;-) The woman behind the...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 10, 2026, 12:59 AM

Iyyar is in the Air – ziv & iyyar

As the month of Iyyar comes to a close this week, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss the two names for “the second month” in the Jewish Calendar — Ziv and Iyyar. That month is very special...

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

May 10, 2026, 12:59 AM

Between ‘Iron Skies’ and the ‘Iron Dome’ Between Human Effort and Trust in Hashem

In the double Torah portion we read this past Shabbat, Behar–Bechukotai, the Torah lays out the foundations for Jewish life in Eretz Yisrael. At its core is the delicate balance between hishtadlut—human effort and responsibility—and the clear recognition that...

May 9, 2026, 12:08 AM

Parshas Behar-Bechikosai: This Land is My Land

Our Parsha this week (which is double) sends us some very powerful warnings about this entire experience of building a Mishkan while living in the desert adjacent to Har Sinai וְהָאָ֗רֶץ לֹ֤א תִמָּכֵר֙ לִצְמִתֻ֔ת כִּי־לִ֖י הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּֽי־גֵרִ֧ים וְתוֹשָׁבִ֛ים אַתֶּ֖ם עִמָּדִֽי׃ But...

May 8, 2026, 8:43 PM

Parashat Behar–Bechukotai

When the Mountain Stays the Hand and the Laws Hold the World Without Our Understanding Them The mountain does not tremble. No one runs. There is no fire driving faces down. Only a voice settling over time like cool shade...

Steven C. Wernick

May 8, 2026, 6:54 PM

The Mountain Doesn’t Blink. Neither Do We.

Last Thursday night, Beth Tzedec hosted a panel that gave urgent shape to questions this Shabbat's Torah portion has been asking all along. Bruce Elman, Co-Chair of CIJA's Legal Task Force and a member of our own Board; Mark...

May 8, 2026, 6:38 PM

When Money Becomes Manhood (Behar-Behukotai)

Men are often taught to treat money as proof of manhood. Not just as a practical necessity. As evidence. Evidence that you are competent, desirable, serious, protective, respectable. Evidence that you can provide, recover, endure. Evidence that your life is...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

May 8, 2026, 5:33 PM

Mental and Physical Health and the Divine Curses

One wonders about the terrible kelalot, the curses, in Parashat Bechukotai. Are they meant to be purely punishments for not observing the commandments of the Torah, or is the Torah hinting to something much deeper? At first glance, it appears that...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

May 8, 2026, 12:05 PM

Spiritual Hunger (Behar–Bechukotai)

“The soul is not nourished by what it takes in, but by what it gives.” — Viktor Frankl Much has been written about nourishment in its most tangible sense, about what sustains the body and allows it to function and...

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