Tzav

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Tzav: The Best Reason

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the major debates in Jewish thought relates to the appropriateness of ascribing reasons for the mitzvoth of the Torah. One approach asserts that if G-d commands, we must obey and do, period. No loyal soldier would dare question an order from…
Article
Mar 29, 2024

Parshat Shavua 5784 with weekly guest speakers (Tzav)

Rabbanit Dr. Adena Berkowitz

Audio
Mar 28, 2024

Tzav: Plain and Simple

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Join as we discuss the year-long prohibition of chametz in the Temple. 
Podcast
Mar 28, 2024

Tzav: City of Peace

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“Do not eat any blood…any person who eats blood shall have his soul cut off from his people” (Vayikra 7:26-27). The prohibition against eating blood, which is universally observed amongst the Jewish people, is repeated three times in the Bible,…
Article
Mar 31, 2023

Parshat Shavua 5783 with weekly guest speaker (Tzav)

Rabbi Allen Schwartz

Audio
Mar 30, 2023

Parshat Shavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker (Tzav )

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Mar 17, 2022

Tzav: Sacrifices and the Spoken Word

Rabbi Jay Kelman

If one were to survey 100 Jews and ask them their least favourite book of Torah it is likely that the vast majority of them would say sefer Vayikra. Breisheet has its riveting stories, Shemot the call to freedom and the emergence of the Jewish…
Article
Mar 14, 2022

Parshat Shavua 5781 with weekly guest speaker ( Parshat Tzav/ Shabbat HaGadol)

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Mar 26, 2021

Tzav: The Place of Sin

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"This is the law of the sin offering, chatat: at the place where the elevation offering, olah, is slaughtered shall the sin offering be slaughtered before G-d, it is holy of holies" (Vayikra 6:18). The korban chatat and korban olah…
Article
Apr 3, 2020

Tzav: Time to Change?

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Excitement and consistency: We tend to view these terms as contradictory. Man gets excited over discovering new things and views variety as the spice of life. Modern man is bored with a consistent routine and eschews the seeming monotony that…
Article
Mar 22, 2019