Posts Tagged: Emor Torah
Many Religious People Are Not Altruistic; the Torah Asks Us to Do Better
There is a widely held view that people of faith are kinder and more altruistic than non-believers. Let’s face it, we all think that religious...
The Cost of Alienation and Assimilation on Judaism
It is one of the most problematic stories in the Torah. A young man, who was the son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian man,...
Parshat Emor: Is the Greatest Danger Close to Home?
If you were on the lookout for a bizarre news headline this week, I don’t think you could have beaten this one: “Shock After Christian...
Parshat Emor and Coronavirus: The Only Guarantee Is Uncertainty
There is something very strange about the festival of Sukkot, on which our parsha is the primary source. On the one hand, it is the...
