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Commentary from the Book of Leviticus

Kedoshim

  • Toward a New Jewish Sexual Ethic (September 8, 2001)
  • The Emerging Torah of Same-Sex Marriage (February 18, 2004)

Vayikra

  • Isaiah on Idols: Wood Then, Oil Now (March 15, 2005)
  • Food, Our Innards, and God's Inwardness (March 15, 2005)

Tzav

  • Jeremiahs Old & New: Wright & "wrong" (March 24, 2008)
  • A Sun of Justice with Healing in its Wings (March 24, 2009)
  • Liberating Passover & the Earth: Making change happen with the Interfaith Seder for the Earth (October 8, 2008)

Shemini

  • Strange Fire, All-Consuming Commitment (March 30, 2008)
  • Fires to Consume, Fires to Enlighten (September 8, 2001)

Tazria

  • When the Tah-may Sacred Candle Casts a Laser Beam of Light (April 6, 2005)

Metsora

  • The Metsorah Question: Dying and Flying (September 8, 2001)

Acharai Mot

  • Emerging Torah of Same-Sex Marriage (December 10, 2003)

Emor

  • Transforming Our Festivals, Our Lives (September 8, 2001)

Behar

  • The Shmitah and Yovel: Sabbatical and Jubilee Years (September 8, 2001)
  • Bankers, the Bible, & the Bail-out (September 23, 2008)
  • Toward a Jubilee Economy & Ecology in the Modern World (May 12, 2008)

Bechukotay

  • If We Do Allow the Earth to Rest -- (January 2, 2005)
 

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