Today, the Lord said to me, I demand of you a perfect and whole-burnt offering; an offering of the will. No other sacrifice can compare with this one. I Myself am directing your life and arranging ...

Sacrifice' is a very important term for understanding atonement, forgiveness of sins, the cross, and the Eucharist in the ...

Thanks for joining our Bible study about "burnt offerings." This study was sparked after I met a woman who had recently returned from an archaeological dig in Shiloh, Israel. The Shiloh excavation was ...

Today’s daf continues to discuss cases in which the original intended purpose of a sacrifice is not what ends up happening. These rather technical debates about mistakes in the process of bringing a ...

For you are not pleased with sacrifices; should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it. My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. ~ ...

Whether it was to appease a deity or honor the dead, ritual animal sacrifice was widespread in the ancient world. But there is a region where it appears that hardly any of these rituals occurred for ...

With Parashat Vayikra we begin the book of Leviticus. Of the five books of the Torah, this one is the most difficult for people today to relate to. The opening chapters that we read this week are all ...

Today, we think of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) with frank admiration, but during his lifetime and after his death, he sparked one of Judaism’s angriest disputes. The so-called “Maimonidean ...