Adina Gerver: Behar-Bechukotai Ethical Consumption
Adina Gerver summarizes the parashah simply: God promises agricultural abundance during the 7th year, which should invoke compliance. If this promise is not adequate for…
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Adina Gerver summarizes the parashah simply: God promises agricultural abundance during the 7th year, which should invoke compliance. If this promise is not adequate for…
Rabbi Nevins writes that the capacity for humanity to ruin and be exiled from the earth was found millennia ago, in this Torah portion. In…