This week YHWH lays down the law concerning Her “friend,” arguably the most desireable character in the Torah, Koran and Christian bible, with whom She shares a mysterious relationship. We are instructed concerning, among other things, some of the Torahs’s most radical ideas, including the impossibility of permanent land ownership and the wildly idealistic Jubilee year, which some scholars insist was actually practiced.
We are now more than half way through the Torah and this double portion ends the book of Vayikra/Leviticus. - Mazel Tov!
Chazak, Chazak, V ’nitchazeik! - SHABBAT SHALOM! - a & s
