Category: Acharei Mot
-
Acharei Mot 5784: Its Way of Life
When I was in high school I once picked up the Thanksgiving edition of the Village Voice and saw a humor column titled something like “Fifty things to be thankful for about living in America.” After…
-
Acharei Mot 5782: “Life and Ritual in the Shadow of Death”
When the first atomic bomb was exploded in a test detonation near Los Alomos laboratory, Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb” quoted Hindu scripture and said, “Now I am become…
-
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5778: “In This Way Shall He Enter the Sanctuary”
What if there were only one shul in the world? Some questions would become easy to answer. “Where are you going to make the bris?”“There’s one shul in the world!” “Where will you be for Pesach?”“There’s…
-
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim 5775: “Does Judaism Recognize an Ethic Independent of Halakhah”
You may have noticed that my family was not in shul last Shabbat. (I actually hope you did notice that we weren’t here)! Last Shabbat we took a short and much appreciated family vacation to exotic Columbus,…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 