Daniel Harrell delivers this week's inspiration on the Spirituality page. Jan. 21, 2011 — -- I'm a minister, and not too long ago I led a small group from my former church in Boston through an ...

If we were to state the motto of the book of Leviticus, it might best be described as You shall be holy for I, the LORD your God, am holy (Lev. 19:2). There are many instructions for sacrifice ...

Have you ever noticed that at the center of the Torah is a cookbook? Until we get to the Book of Leviticus, we read the epic story of the Jewish people. From creation to liberation to covenant, we ...

Turning the page from Exodus to Leviticus, we transition from a powerful narrative about the miraculous birth of a nation to essentially a technical, Levitical handbook. The plethora of laws in ...

“Everything that the priesthood of the Old Covenant prefigured finds its fulfillment in Christ Jesus, the ‘one mediator between God and men” (“Catechism of the Catholic Church,” 1544). On our journey ...

This week, the annual Jewish Torah reading cycle brings us to the book of Vayikra, or Leviticus. Many see this as the “plotless” part of the Torah, detailing sacrifices and many other laws that do not ...

What does it mean to be a human being? Are we the “social animal” of Aristotle? The thinking being of Descartes (“cogito ergo sum” — I think therefore I am)? The Book of Leviticus presents us with a ...

In synagogues around the world on April 1, the annual Torah reading cycle will turn to the book of Leviticus. I am looking forward to it. Few synagogue goers or Bible readers seem to share my ...

This article proposes an analysis of two homiletic units in the Palestinian Midrash Leviticus Rabbah, which revolve around biblical chapters pertaining to sacrifices. A theme that pervades these units ...