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Video Study for Parsha Emor

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muman613:
Shalom Shalom,

It is Wednesday, and time for me to start studying this weeks Torah reading for Shabbat. This week we are reading parsha Emor, another portion packed with mitzvot and meaning. Though most of the laws concern the Kohen and his service in the Holy Temple, we also read about the Jewish festival Calender of Torah mandated Holidays and the Sabbath day.

Here is the Chabad 'Parsha in a Nutshell':


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The Torah section of Emor (“Speak”) begins with the special laws pertaining to the kohanim (“priests”), the kohen gadol (“high priest”), and the Temple service: A kohen may not become ritually impure through contact with a dead body, save on the occasion of the death of a close relative. A kohen may not marry a divorcee, or a woman with a promiscuous past; a kohen gadol can marry only a virgin. A kohen with a physical deformity cannot serve in the Holy Temple, nor can a deformed animal be brought as an offering.

A newborn calf, lamb or kid must be left with its mother for seven days before being eligible for an offering; one may not slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day.

The second part of Emor lists the annual Callings of Holiness—the festivals of the Jewish calendar: the weekly Shabbat; the bringing of the Passover offering on 14 Nissan; the seven-day Passover festival beginning on 15 Nissan; the bringing of the Omer offering from the first barley harvest on the second day of Passover, and the commencement, on that day, of the 49-day Counting of the Omer, culminating in the festival of Shavuot on the fiftieth day; a “remembrance of shofar blowing” on 1 Tishrei; a solemn fast day on 10 Tishrei; the Sukkot festival—during which we are to dwell in huts for seven days and take the “Four Kinds”—beginning on 15 Tishrei; and the immediately following holiday of the “eighth day” of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret).

Next the Torah discusses the lighting of the menorah in the Temple, and the showbread (lechem hapanim) placed weekly on the table there.

Emor concludes with the incident of a man executed for blasphemy, and the penalties for murder (death) and for injuring one’s fellow or destroying his property (monetary compensation).
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Let us start our video study with a 15 minute talk by the great Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute.



And one from 3 years ago:

muman613:
Now let us listen to the wisdom of Rabbi Finkelstein of Memphis Tennessee talk about Emor.

muman613:
I love the approach of Rabbi Machlis... He seems to have a lot of Ahavat Yisrael (Love of the people of Israel).

muman613:
Rabbi Nagen of Otniel :

muman613:
Another short Rabbi Trugman talk from BeThereIsrael...

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