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Parashah of the week: Tzav

“Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram’s head, and it was slaughtered. Moses took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right ear-lobe, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.” Leviticus 8:22-23

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Smoke rises from a burnt offering (Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible Illustrations/Wikimedia Commons)
The Tabernacle in the wilderness (from the 1890 Holman Illustrated Bible/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Tetzaveh

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Supermoon, or perigee moon, rising behind Mount Wilson Observatory in California in 2024 (Photo: Getty Images)

Parashah of the week: Bo

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Parashah of the week: Mikketz

Parashah of the week: Mikketz

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Parashah of the week: Chayei Sarah

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November 21, 2024 12:45
Rebecca meets Isaac, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c1640, depicted on a horse rather than a camel (Wikimedia Commons)

Can we really speak of God today as ‘Our Father, Our King’?

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September 29, 2024 11:00
The supplications of a chazan on the High Holy Days from the 1927 film, The Jazz Singer