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By Ariel Ben Avraham. Haifa, Southern Galilee, Israel Sometimes Pesach falls between parshat Shemini and parshat Tazria-Metzora and their contents are related to the Exodus from Egypt.
PARSHAT SHEMINI by Yehuda HaKohen. “For I am HaShem your G-D – you are to sanctify yourselves and you shall be Kedoshim, for I am Kadosh; and you shall not contaminate yourselves through any teeming thing that creeps on the earth. For I am HaShem Who elevates you from the land of Egypt to be a G-D unto you; you shall be Kedoshim, for I am Kadosh.” (VAYIKRA 11:44-45)
Ariel Ben Avraham . Tzav continues detailing the offerings to be brought to the Creator in order to be close to Him.
By Yitzhak Hayut-man. Parashot vaYaqhel (Ex. 35:1 – 38:20) & Pequde (38:21 – 40:38 The two Parashot, vaYaqhel & Pequdei are often read together on the same Shabbat, and indeed their subject is the same – the Mishkan (Tabernacle). All the 122 verses of vaYaqhel (apart from two that discuss the Shabbat) and 92 verses of Pequdei deal exclusively with the work of assembling the Mishkan.
By Ariel Ben Avraham . Our highest knowledge of God and His Love (represented by Moses) enables the highest awareness of our connection with Him (represented by Aaron, the High Priest) to lead every aspect and dimension of consciousness in God’s ways and attributes, which manifest into the material world as Love’s ways and means.
PARSHAT KI TISA by Yehuda HaKohen. “HaShem spoke to Moshe, saying: `When you elevate the heads (take a census) of the Children of Israel according to their numbers, every man shall give HaShem an atonement for his soul when counting them, so that there will not be a plague among them when counting them.
