The very first words found in Gordon Wenham’s 1979 NICOT commentary on Leviticus are these: “Leviticus used to ...

Imagine sending your little darling Rachel to a traditional boys Yeshiva. Transitionally the first place for study is the sacrifice of animals in Leviticus Why did young children begin their Jewish ...

Let us have a closer look—however uninviting that may seem at first—at the occasions for ritual purification in this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12–15). We might be ...