The strangest and most dramatic element of the service on Yom Kippur, set out in Acharei Mot (Lev. 16: 7-22), was the ritual of the two goats, one offered as a sacrifice, the other sent away into the ...

Parashat Acharei Mot is so fraught that one can hardly think about its content without considering what parts of it we dodge or downright omit. In its entirety, the parsha covers Leviticus 16-18. The ...

Parshat Acharei Mot begins with G-d instructing Moshe to tell his brother Aaron the High Priest about the performance of the Yom Kippur service, the description of which takes up all of Chap. 16. The ...

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In this video, we delve into Parshat Acharei Mot, which famously discusses the holiest day in Judaism - Yom Kippur - and the role of the Kohen Gadol on that day. As we examine the Psukim, two crucial ...

The reappearance of this disturbing episode in Acharei-Mot evokes the original shock of the deaths; its insinuating presence next to the Yom Kippur service, however, also suggests a thematic, rather ...

Yom Kippur is quite properly viewed as a somber day of introspection. The Torah reinforces this perspective when declaring that on the Day of Atonement, we are to “afflict [te’anu] our souls” ...

Our guest today is Rabbi Laurence Bazer, the Rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom in Farmingham, Massachusetts. Rabbi Laurence Bazer was ordained by The Jewish Theological Seminary in 1993 and served as a ...

Why were Nadav and Avihu, two of Aaron’s sons, killed? The Torah states their deaths occurred when they brought an esh zarah (foreign fire) into the Temple (Leviticus 10:1). But what was the nature of ...