Questions tagged [parashas-emor]
The weekly Torah portion of Emor (Leviticus 21:1–24:23)
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Why did Moshe have to go to Hashem for what to do about the Shabbos desecrator?
It is a basic and accepted belief in Orthodox Judaism that both the Torah Shebeksav (Written Torah) and the Torah Shebaal Peh were given on Har Sinai to Moshe. Considering this fact, why do we find ...
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Minhag of reading end of Parshat Emor with an undertone
Good morning,
Last Shabbat for Parshat Emor, I noticed that our experienced baal Koreh read the end of the Parsha about the episode of the Mekalel aka the blasphemer with an undertone. After services, ...
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Kohen Gadol and marriage
We know that a Kohen hedyot may marry a woman who is not a giyoret, gerushah, challalah, or zonah (Lev. 21:8) and that the Kohen Gadol may only marry a betulah (ibid. 13).
Given this, what would ...
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Parashat Emor - Connection Between Kohen and Sacrifice
Shalom! In parashat Emor, both the Kohen and the sacrifice are disqualified based on physical deformities. What is the connection between the two? (Answers on different levels Pshat, Drash, Sod would ...
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Why does the torah repeat itself regarding מומין in Kohanim?
In Emor, perek:21 posuk:17 the Torah says:
דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֞ לְדֹרֹתָ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בוֹ֙ מ֔וּם לֹ֣א יִקְרַ֔ב לְהַקְרִ֖יב לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהָֽיו׃
Speak to Aaron and ...
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What's the Juxtaposition of the two sections?
In this week's parasha, Emor, we have at the beginning of it talking about what the Kohanim can and can't do. Next, we have later in the same parasha details of the Yomim Tovim. What's the connection: ...
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Who sought to kick the convert out of Dan's area?
In explaining the posuk (Vayikra 24:10)
וַיֵּצֵא בֶּן־אִשָּׁה יִשְׂרְאֵלִית וְהוּא בֶּן־אִישׁ מִצְרִי בְּתוֹךְ
בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיִּנָּצוּ בַּמַּחֲנֶה בֶּן הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִית
וְאִישׁ הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִי׃ ...
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Can 'Omer' be translated as 'sheaf', or does it only refer to a measure of grain?
What is the translation of an omer? Do the sages or rabbis use, at least, two different translations? Does an "omer" ever mean a bundle of standing (or not standing) grain stalks?
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Where was the son of the Israelite supposed to go?
At the end of Parashat Emor is the story of the “son of the Israelite” who blasphemied HaShem’s name because HaShem returned His judgement to Moshe that the man did not have a right to set up camp ...
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Why do we read Leviticus 22:26-32 on the first day of Sukkot?
I'm wondering what explanations are offered (preferably by the various Rishonim), if any, as to why we read Lv. 22:26-32 on the first day of Sukkot. The latter part of the reading (23:1 and on) is ...
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Does Ezekiel 44:22 contradict the Torah?
Ezekiel 44:22 states: "Neither shall they [the priests] take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and a widow that is the ...
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Haftorah Parshas Emor
Why would we institute the public haftorah reading for Emor, which includes one of the pesukim in Yechezkel which almost caused that seffer to be hidden away by chazzal?
See Shabbos 13b with Rashi.
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Why are laws of damages written in the middle of the story of the blasphemer?
In the end of Parshas Emor (Vayikra 24:10-23), the Torah relates the story of someone who blasphemed and his punishment. After the person blasphemes, he is put in a prison while Moshe proceeds to ask ...
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Kamatz katan in "kadashim" in Vayikra 24:9
In the verse Vayikra 24:9 in the printed tikkun the first kamatz of the word kadashim (קׇֽדָשִׁ֨ים) is not katan. However, on Wikisource it has that first kamatz as a kamatz katan:
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(How) did the M'kallel know he was doing something the warranted death?
In Vayikra 24:12 it says they placed the person who cursed God in jail. The gemarah (Sanhedrin 78b) explains that Moshe did not know if this person's actions warranted the death punishment and that ...
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How do we know that ממחרת השבת means from the first day of Pesach and not the seventh?
How do we know that ממחרת השבת means from the first day of Pesach and not the seventh?
Don't they both deserve to be called שבת?
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How was the Mekalel given the death penalty if the punishment wasn’t known?
Inspired by How was the Mekoshesh given the death penalty if the punishment wasn't known yet?
The OP there asks how the Mekoshesh, the one who chopped wood on Shabbos could be put to death if he ...
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Censuring a variant reading
In Leviticus 24:20 we read the phrase "an eye for an eye." The talmud teaches (in Bava Kamma and Ketubot) that this refers to monetary value. Is there any source which criticizes a literal reading?
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Why does Rashi quote Vayikra 23:39 as the source for leap years?
Why does Rashi quote Vayikra 23:39 as the source for Ibur Shana ("מכאן שנצטוו לעבר את השנים"), as opposed to Devarim 16:1 quoted by the Rambam in Hilchos Kiddush Hachodesh 1:1 ("והשנים שאנו מחשבין הם ...
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Ivri and Israeli
In many parts of the torah, When it talks about a jew it says, בני ישראל or עברי etc. However in Parashat Emor when talking about the son of Shlomit the daughter of divri from the tribe of Dan who ...
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Why is מקראי קדש not נסוג אחור?
In Parshat Emor, Vayikra 23:2:
דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מוֹעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־תִּקְרְא֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם מִקְרָאֵ֣י קֹ֑דֶשׁ אֵ֥לֶּה הֵ֖ם מוֹעֲדָֽי׃
And also 23:37:
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Why, in Vayikra 21:10, does the verse state "...HaGadol MeEchav" instead of simply "HaGadol"?
In this weeks Parsha, Emor, I came across this pasuk:
והכן הגדול מאחיו אשר יוצק על ראשו שמן המשחה ומלא את-ידו ללבוש את-הבגדים את-ראשו לא יפרע ובגדיו לא יפרם:
(ויקרא כא:י)
And he that is the ...
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Is the name אזולי/אזולאי based on the verse of אשה זנה וחללה לא יקחו
In this answer to Which surnames are Kohanim's and why?, Azulai (however you choose to transliterate it) is a Kohanic surname, based on the the fact that the Rashei Teivos seem to be those of the ...
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Which verse is correct? Genesis 1:14 or Leviticus 23:27? [duplicate]
Genesis 1:14 says that all Appointed Times (מועדים) are determined by the Sun and the Moon Phases. For example, all Holy Meetings (מקרא קדש) in the 1st or 7th months fall on moon phases.
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Limping צלע and פסח
צלע (Genesis/Bereshit 32:32)
וַיִּֽזְרַֽח־ל֣וֹ הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָבַ֖ר אֶת־פְּנוּאֵ֑ל וְה֥וּא צֹלֵ֖עַ עַל־יְרֵכֽוֹ׃
And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his ...
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When to start counting the Omer [duplicate]
It is written that one needs to count the Omer:
From the day after the Shabat.. count off seven full weeks (Vayikra 23:15).
Count off fifty days up to the day after (from the morrow after) the seventh ...
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A ba'al mum profanes His sanctuary?
I was intrigued by a question on this website about the reason behind the given commandment that a ba'al mum can't approach to bring a offer made of fire and the offer of bread/food of his G-d, and ...
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Animals v.s. human mum and tamim in offering
Regards animals it is said: Any [animal] that has a blemish (mum מום) you shall not offer up (Leviticus 22:20), and that it has to be tamim (תמים - 22:21). While regards the kohanim who brought the ...
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Offerings made by fire and food/Bread for HaShem
What's so special about אשי יהוה, and לחם אלהיו that the Kohanim are to be Holy because of it, and the ba'al mumim can't bring these?
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Which tasks ar left for a ba'al mum to perform
Although a ba'al mum (a kohen/priest with a blemish or defect) can't approach to bring near to offer food for his G-d (Vayikra/Leviticus 21:17), can't approach to bring near the offerings made by Fire ...
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Physical defect vs. defect in Holiness
Vayikra/Leviticus 21:17 and 21 describe that a person (who is a kohen) and has a physical defect can't bring offerings made with fire and can't approach to bring near the food/bread for G-d. This ...
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People with defects and their role in serving
Parashat Emor teaches (Vayikra/Leviticus 21:17) something about
a kohen with a 'מום' (blemish, defect, deformity, disability, handicap) isn't allowed to serve in the Holy Temple.
But without the ...
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What does Rabenu Tam think is really the source for a minyan comprising ten?
We have two Biblical sources that show by deduction than "ceremonial" acts involving k'dusha must be done in a quorum of at least ten. One pasuk is the primary one cited in the Talmud Y'rushalmi -
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R. Bachaye's understanding of why Sukkos is split up in the Pesukim
(All quotes are from Parshas Emor, Vayikra 23.)
In pesukim 33-36, the Mitzvah of the karbanos on Sukkos in mentioned. In verses 37-38, the Torah records the concluding line of Eileh Moadei... which ...
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Source of Hirsch Vayikra 23:15
I'm looking for a english translation of Hirsch his full commentary on VaYikra 23:15. Does anyone knows where i could find it?
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Meaning of "Shabbatot" when it's translated as "weeks"
Vayikra 23:15 translates the word Shabbatot as 'weeks', weeks that are to be Temimot (compleet/perfect);
Normally this would be from Yom Rishon till Shabbat like in the phrase:
'Yom rishon l'...
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Count seven weeks or seven shabbats?
Vayikra 23:15 reads the phrase: sheva shabbatot t'miymot.
Why is this rendered as 'seven weeks' and not 'seven shabbats'?
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The Omer during Shmita
The original Omer was an offering of newly cut barley.
So what happened during the Shmitta year when there was no harvest? Presumably this offering was not brought?
Was there still a biblical ...
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Why are the commandments for the holiday of Succot interrupted by commandments regarding sacrifices in general?
Vayikra 23:33-36 discuss the celebration of Succot. Then, verses 37-38 interrupt the discussion by saying a general statement that these are the holidays when you should offer sacrifices. Then, verses ...
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Is there a difference in meaning between קָדֹֽשׁ and קֹֽדֶשׁ?
I am helping my son lain parshat Emor. He's having a hard time seeing the difference between קֹֽדֶשׁ and קָדֹ֥שׁ esp. when they are written the same. Usually, when I train students to lain, I try to ...
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Why aren't Aharon's sons or B'nei Yisra'el mentioned in Vayikra 21:17?
Compare Leviticus 21:17 and 24:
דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֞ לְדֹרֹתָ֗ם
אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בוֹ֙ מ֔וּם לֹ֣א יִקְרַ֔ב לְהַקְרִ֖יב לֶ֥חֶם
אֱלֹהָֽיו׃
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Avodah Melachah; work what is the difference
The roots לאך and עבד are the basis to form the words that could be translated as 'work' מלאכה and עבדה. But what is the difference?
What distinguishing work from work?
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Why did the son of the Egyptian and Jew have to convert?
Rashi on Vayikra 24:10 says that the son of the Egyptian man (that Moshe killed) and Shlomit bat Divri converted:
בתוך בני ישראל: מלמד שנתגייר:
However, since his mother was a Jew, why did he ...
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Why mention the ger in Lev 19:10, 23:22?
Vayikra 23:22:
וּבְקֻצְרְכֶם אֶת קְצִיר אַרְצְכֶם לֹא תְכַלֶּה פְּאַת שָׂדְךָ בְּקֻצְרֶךָ וְלֶקֶט קְצִירְךָ לֹא תְלַקֵּט לֶעָנִי וְלַגֵּר תַּעֲזֹב אֹתָם
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discrepancy between parashat emor and yechezkel regarding if it is possible for a kohen to be mitame for a spouse
In parashat Emor (Vayikra 21:2) it is written
כִּי, אִם-לִשְׁאֵרוֹ, הַקָּרֹב, אֵלָיו: לְאִמּוֹ וּלְאָבִיו, וְלִבְנוֹ וּלְבִתּוֹ וּלְאָחִיו.כא,ג וְלַאֲחֹתוֹ הַבְּתוּלָה הַקְּרוֹבָה אֵלָיו, אֲשֶׁר ...
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Sukkot--Object or place name?
Does anyone translate "סֻכּוֹת" in Vayikra 23:43 as a place name rather than an object (see Shmot 12:37 and 13:20, where it's a place name)?
Might the Toarah mean "celebrate Sukkot because that's the ...
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Why not count 50 days of the omer instead of 49?
The verse in Vayikra (23:16) says:
עד ממחרת השבת השביעית תספרו חמישים יום
even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days (OJPS, emphasis added)
In my experience the omer ...
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