Beit Midrash
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Vayikra
- Kdoshim
The following are prohibited: Idolatry; theft & robbery; false oaths; retention of another's property; delaying payment to an employee; hating or cursing a fellow Jew (even the deaf!); gossip; perversion of justice; inaction when others are at risk; embarrassing another; taking revenge; bearing a grudge; crossbreeding; wearing shatnez (wool & linen together); harvesting a tree in its first 3 years (orlah); gluttony & intoxication; witchcraft, tattooing.
Positive Mitzvot include: Respect for parents & the elderly; sharing our harvest with the poor; lovingothers (especially a convert); respect for
Rabbis; assisting the blind & deaf. We are warned not to imitate non-Jewish behavior, lest we lose the land of Israel. We must observe laws of kashrut and, in general, maintain our unique & separate status.
Planting a Long-Term Investment
Parashat Kedoshim
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | 28 Nisan 5765
What Is the “elastic Clause” of Judaism?
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Nissan 26 5782
Reasons behind the Prohibition of Sowing Mixed Seeds
from Siach Shaul 337-339
Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l | 30 Nissan 5784
