"These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai" (Leviticus 27:34). This verse is at the end of Chapter 7 of Leviticus, the third book of the Torah ...

Some skeptical readers doubted that my Bible reading would last past Exodus. Oh, it’s all thrills and giggles when you’re dealing with the Ten Plagues and the Tower of Babel—but wait till you get to ...

Let us have a closer look—however uninviting that may seem at first—at the occasions for ritual purification in this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12–15). We might be ...