Tzav

Pesach and the aish tamid / continuous fire (Tzav & Pesach)

This d’var is based on Lev. 6:1-6. The aish tamid The first six verses of this morning’s Torah reading announce that these are the rules concerning the olah—the sacrificial offering in which all the meat is burnt so that its smoke ‘ascends’ to God. But, in fact, the early rabbis, and key commentators ever since, […]

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All are honoured, no one goes without (Tzav)

LGBTQ, Torah / admin

Last Saturday, I turned 60. That means that, if I’d had a bar mitzvah at 13, it would have been in 1977, and Tzav would have been my portion. At that age, I think I would have felt very hard done by to get this parsha, with its exhausting minutiae on sacrifices: what flour and

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