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Podcast: JTS Torah Commentary
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Parashat Va-yak·hel–Pekudei 5772
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2012-03-17 11:18:55
Description: Discussing Parashat Va-yak·hel–Pekudei and Shabbat Parah, Rabbi Leonard A. Sharzer, associate director for Bioethics of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies, JTS, reviews “several components of the Red Heifer ritual that I find most challenging and ask two questions: (1) Is there any way to understand this arcane ritual that has resonance in modern times?; and (2) Why do we read this passage shortly before Pesah?”
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