“A book on Leviticus?” I hear you ask. “Why is he reviewing a book on Leviticus in August? We don’t read Leviticus until the spring!” First off, Torah is – or should be – evergreen. As an editor, I ...

This Shabbat we begin reading the book of Leviticus, Vayikra. For many modern readers, Leviticus is a difficult book to relate to because its main subject matter is ritual animal sacrifice and ritual ...

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 ...

(RNS) It is entirely possible to be a churchgoing Christian for 40 years and never hear a sermon preached solely from the Old Testament book of Leviticus. Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew ...

The Book of Leviticus is at once the most legalistic of Old Testament books and the book which most clearly presents the grace of God in providing for man’s redemption. Minute prescriptions are given ...

Koren Press’ “The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel – Leviticus” follows its predecessors on the Biblical books Exodus and Samuel as a third outstanding biblical commentary. It contains a wealth of ...

For a Christian seeking to familiarize himself with the Word of God, the Book of Leviticus makes for difficult reading. First, it is likely to strike many readers as a dry legislative text specifying ...

This desire to relate to stories reflects the author’s own background in English Literature and her interest in metaphorical language, which by its nature invites interpretation. A new book by Avivah ...

Leviticus gets a bad rap. It lacks the great narratives of the first two books and is full of rules and regulations. Many of these instructions (Lev 1-10) deal with the different types of sacrifices ...

"You shall not go about spreading slander among your people; nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor's life is at stake" (Leviticus 19:16). This verse comes from Leviticus, the third book of ...