Behar / Bechukotai

In the year after

Seven Sabbatical years

The Jubilee year

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Your slaves shall go free

And all land shall be redeemed

It belongs to G-d

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Emor

An eye for an eye

Tooth for tooth.  What does it mean?

Fair compensation

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Acharei Mot / Kedoshim

Some people focus

On Lev. 18:22

That is a mistake

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Lots of Torah laws

Are looked at diff’rently now

We don’t enforce them

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Remember that gays

Created in G-d’s image

Should not be condemned

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Our Reform Movement

Teaches that gay, straight or bi

Are treated the same

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The lesbian Rav

Marries two gay Jewish men

And we say: “Zeh Tov”*

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*[this is good]

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Tazria / Metzorah

Is this the Torah

Or a medical handbook

For the priests to use?

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G-d provides guidelines

For the people to become

Ritually clean

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Shemini

Don’t eat these creatures:

Hoopoe, ibis, ossifrage

Hyrax or osprey

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Never heard of them?

Just click on the names to read

Wikipedia

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Passover

This night differs.  Why?

Matzah, maror, dip, recline

Keep asking questions

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Tzav

Moses demonstrates

G-d’s rules for sacrifices

And ordains the priests

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Vayikra

Now the work begins

For Aaron and all the priests

G-d describes their jobs

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From Shemot to Vayikra

Say chazak, chazak

Another book completed

Priestly stuff is next

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Vayak’heil / P’kudei

A fund raiser’s dream

Moses asks for donations

Gets more than enough

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