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The Deeper End of the Parsha-Acharei Mos-Kedoshim-The Alschich on the Exoneration of Aharon and Dignity of the Downtrodden
Season 1
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Rabbi Worch-Co host of the Chavrusa
and acclaimed translator of the Bnei Yessaschar elaborates on two carefully
selected sections of the famed mystic and commentator, Rav Moshe Alshich,one
from Acharei Mos and its description of the Avodah of Yom Hakippurim .With fine
tuned reading of the verses, the Alshich emphasizes Aharon's complete
exoneration from the sin of the Golden Calf, and the purpose of the special
linen garments, and twin Chatas goats.
Rabbi Worch then turns to
what appears to be a pedestrian passage about agricultural laws in Parshas Kedoshim.
With the Alshich's careful attention to stylistic changes in the Biblical verses,
coupled with cogent referencing of the contractual details of marriage
arrangements as laid out in the Talmud, Rabbi
Worch presents Peah as a paradigm of how community relations and attitudes need
to develop in order to have a holy society that affords dignity to all its
members.
Way beyond a mere translator,
Rabbi Worch places the material in context with Halachic directives in Tzedakah
from the Rambam, evocative statements of the saintly Levi Yitzchak of
Berditchev and a few witty classic Jewish epigrams.
We thank the Illinois Center
for Jewish Studies for the use of this material
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