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This Week's Torah Portion: Emor

Parshat Emor can seem like an amalgamation of halakhic ideas, kohanic proceedings and calenderic dates. Rabbanit Michal Kohane strings together the ideas through the overtone of the ways in which kedushah can transcend people, space, and time.

Rabbanit Michal Kohane

On Lag BaOmer

33: The Magic Number

Explore the deeper significance of Lag BaOmer, from its place in the Omer count and mourning period to its connections with Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, mystical traditions, and even the arrival of manna.

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On Talmud

Growing Grain or Learning Torah?

Learn how Jewish tradition wrestles with the balance between Torah study and working in the world, and consider how these competing ideals might play out in your own life.