Behar/Bekhukotai | Insights from the Weekly Torah Portion with Rabbi Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler

33 Bekhukotai | Fear Itself | Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler

32 Behar | We Do Not Own the Earth | Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler

31 Emor | Insights from the Weekly Torah Portion with Rabbi Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler

31 Emor | An Eye for an Eye? | Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler

Justice is an ideal that the Torah repeatedly insists we must pursue, no matter how difficult to attain. This week's Torah portion coincided with the guilty verdict handed down by the jury in the George Floyd murder trial. Justice was served. The Torah's teachings about what it means to be a good citizen and to live in a just society are an inspiration.

30 Kedoshim | The Mitzvah of Tokhekha: Tough Love | Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler

The Torah understands the skin affliction known as Tzara'at to be an indicator of a loss of integrity. The afflicted, known as the Metzora, must undergo a period of isolation and then ritual of reintegration into the community, so that further communal disintegration can be prevented.

27 Tazri'a | The Meaning of Forty | Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler

29 Akharei Mot | The First Yom Kippur | Jonathan Kligler by Rabbi Jonathan Kligler