Study
Parashat Bechukotai: Summary
God enumerates the rewards for keeping the commandments and the punishments for violating them; the laws of tithes are then listed.
Parashat Behar: Summary
God tells Moses to instruct the people in the laws of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, as well as how to relate to those in the community who become impoverished.
Parashat Kedoshim: Summary
God tells Moses to give the people a series of ethical and ritual laws instructing them in how to be holy.
Parashat Emor: Summary
God gives Moses a series of laws specific to the priests; God then instructs Moses to tell the people about the festivals in addition to laws of blasphemy and murder.
Death and Mourning: Sources from the Babylonian Talmud
On attending to mourners, anticipating dying, accepting death, and appropriate burial rites.
The Personal is Communal
Events in the "calendar" of the lifecycle are private, yet connect us to the "unseen presences" of missing family members and our entire people throughout history.