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Purity and holiness are inextricably bound to the overriding value of constant sacrifice in Jewish life. It is no coincidence that the laws of the sacrificial worship in the Temple are connected to the laws of purity in this book of Vayikra. Without sacrifice, constant daily sacrifice, purity and holiness are unachievable goals. In a very contaminated environment it is most difficult to keep one’s self clean and pure. It requires great discipline and restraint, care and will, in short, a supreme sense of sacrifice. In life we are always faced with myriad daily choices. Every choice that we make indicates that we have sacrificed another choice that we could have made. Then the only question that remains is that whether we made the correct sacrifice. Will our choice brings closer to a sense of holiness and purity and purpose in our lives or perhaps it will do the opposite. The seeming jumble of laws in the book of Vayikra is meant to guide our choices of which sacrifices we should wisely make in our lives. The Torah details for us all of the categories of sacrifices - public, private, those of leaders and of paupers - and thereby points the way to our sacrificing wisely and productively. This is the overall thrust of this great biblical book of Vayikra.
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
