Vayikra 5783: What Do We Do With a Book Full of Animal Sacrifice?
So much of Sefer Vayikra (the Book of Leviticus) is steeped in concepts that are foreign to us today - the temple cult, the offering of sacrifices - that it's de rigueur to assume we won't understand or care very much about this set of Torah portions. But Elisha Ancselovits, in a havruta of guiding questions from Aviva Lauer, gives us a whole new take on why the Korban Shlamim - the peace offering - is actually a practice that we can and do still fulfill today in slightly different cultural ways. Credits: Aviva Lauer and Rabbi Dr. Elisha Anscelovits - Pardes Faculty