Prayer Instead of Sacrifice
This week’s reading continues to detail the laws of sacrifice. Here we shall deal with the connection between sacrifice and prayer, based on the assertion by Rabbi Joshua ben Levi: “The prayers were instituted...
Leviticus 6-8
This week’s reading continues to detail the laws of sacrifice. Here we shall deal with the connection between sacrifice and prayer, based on the assertion by Rabbi Joshua ben Levi: “The prayers were instituted...
A Continual Fire | Parshat Tzav In this lecture we learn about “A Continual Fire” which is to remain on the Altar. In his Likkutei Torah (Devarim 78d) Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi explains...
Three flames were commanded to be kept burning on the altar, as Maimonides explains: Three arrays of fire are to be made atop the altar each day: the first is a large fire on...
Bring a Sacrifice | Parshat Tzav Bringing a sacrifice was the most important part of a connection with G-D. This idea of coming close the creator intrigues the seeker. We discover in the text...
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: Parshas TZAV Leviticus 6:1-8:36 THE ALTAR FIRE Parshas TZAV is taken up with sacrificial laws and rituals. For many people, it is easier to relate to narrative portions...
In Tzav part, two will focus on how G-D instructed Moses to assemble the whole community at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting for the priests’ ordination. Moses brought Aaron and his sons...
> Tzav, Tsav, Zav, Sav, or in Biblical Hebrew Ṣaw (צַו — Hebrew for “command,” the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 25thweekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the book of Leviticus....