Way, way, way back when I first started this blog, I used the analogy that the way the Torah is organized is similar to the child rearing process a parent goes through with their children. If you want to take a trip down memory lane, you can read this post (actually it was only the […]

We are now discussing the Year of Jubilee or YOVEL in Hebrew. In my last post I mentioned that one of the main reasons for Jubilee was to give the honest and hard-working individual who fell into poverty through no fault of his own a fresh start.  Now one of the main reasons an ancient […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 25. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. We now come to that place in the Torah where we’re given instructions on the often misunderstood and mysterious “Year of Jubilee”. If there is one singular word that nicely sums up the context of […]

“Anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution, life for life. If someone injures his neighbor, what he did is to be done to him — break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth — whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return.”-Leviticus 24:18-20 […]

“Then tell the people of Israel, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin; and whoever blasphemes the name of Adonai must be put to death; the entire community must stone him. The foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the Name. Anyone who strikes another person […]