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This chapter is an economic chapter. It starts with the Sabbatical and Jubilee years - Shemitta and Yovel - and then engages in a series of paragraphs which describe an individual who gets deeper and deeper into financial distress. The key words- fall, brother, and redemption - give us a sense of what is at stake and how small acts can redeem our world.

An intriguing episode about a man who doesn't find his place in the camp, and takes his rage out against God, pronouncing God's name and blaspheming God. The man is put to death. This story bears a striking resemblance to a Story about Moshe! What is the difference?

Chapter 23 is one of the most comprehensive depictions of the chagim - the annual cycle of festivals. But it has a rich usage of words whose meaning is unclear: Moed, Mikra Kodesh, Shabbaton. We attempt to deepen our understanding of these words and to reach the deep-meaning of the chapter.

Today we address four dimensions of Kiddush and Hillul Hashem - the Sanctification and Desecration of God's name.

The priests, the kohanim, have special rules about their marriages, haircuts, mourning practices, impurity. They can also be disqualified from active service due to a variety of physical disfigurations. Today we attempt to lend some explanation to the unique role and rules of the Kohanim.

What is the prominence of idolatrous warnings in our chapter? Why do we hear - twice - a list of abhorrent sexual practices? And how does this relate to "Hukot Hagoy" - the notion of the ambient culture of Canaan. Today we explain the unit of ch.18-20 and what it seeks to say about the Torah's ethical lifestyle in contrast to the degenerate ways of the Canaanite nations.

Today we discuss the structure and form of chapter 19 as well as the famous dictum, "Love your Neighbour as Yourself."

In this podcast we discuss Rav David Zvi Hoffman's division of Vayikra into two halves, each with a particular language and a very different orientation.

Our chapter deals with meat sacrificed or slaughtered OUTSIDE the Mishkan. When is it permitted? When is it prohibited? We demonstrate that the ethical and religious concerns here are not timeless; they are highly contingent upon circumstance and context.

Its Yom Kippur in the Sanctuary. And the High Priest does a lottery. Two goats. One as a sin offering to God; the second sent to "Azazel" What is Azazel? Why this lottery? What does it mean?

Our chapter describes the nature of various bodily fluids, some natural, others involuntary, and speaks of the Tum'ah that they create and the rites of purification. Today we speak about various perspectives about the nature and effects of "Tum'ah" and whether sometimes God prefers Israel even in an impure state of being.

Why is the Tzara'at of houses contained in a separate section to the Tzaraat of skin and clothing? We explore two opposite and yet complementary dynamics in Hazal's explanation of this plague.

Is Tzaraat (sometimes translated incorrectly as leprosy) a medical ailment or a spiritual one? The Tanakh speaks of several instances of people afflicted by Tzaraat. What causes this condition?

A woman who births a child contracts impurity! Why? And she has to bring a sin offering? What sin did she incur? We will frame this episode in the broader framework of these chapters, which will go some way to answering these questions.

In this chapter we hear the laws of forbidden foods - Kosher animals, fish, birds and insects. But why are some animals forbidden and others allowed? Is there a logic to the particular animals that are banned for consumption? And why do non-kosher animals engender ritual impurity?