Our guest this week is Rabbi Elie Abadie, founding rabbi and leader of The Edmund J. Safra synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Abadie was born in Beirut Lebanon and grew up in Mexico City, coming to the ...

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Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: ‘Holiness,’ ‘abstinence,’ and what lies between Don’t aim for lofty, angelic separation “like Mine” but live a human holiness – the kind of life for which I created the ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This year the eighth day of Passover, kept only in the Diaspora, fell on the Sabbath, so while Jews in Israel read Parshat Acharei Mot, the Sabbath Torah portion, Jews in the Diaspora ...

One week before Pesach, I sat in a hospital room in a Philadelphia intensive care unit. In that moment, I was not a rabbi. I was a brother. I was there with my older brother, Eyal, who has been a ...

Parashat ‘Kedoshim’ begins with a commandment declared before the entire nation due to its great importance. “You shall be holy” (Leviticus 19:2). God demands that the people of Israel be “holy.” But ...