Leviticus:  Sifra  March 7, 2014
The first week of reading Leviticus, the Book of Holiness. The Rabbis call it Sifra: The Book. It depicts our human struggle to connect to the ineffable yet ever-present divinity in our lives. It's not some Freudian crutch, but the awareness of the Wholly Other, the Sacrality of human touch, a child's birth, an inexplicable love, the sacrifice of self for the other. We experience the sacred even when we cannot explain it. And so we worship, each in our own way, because God's presence touches each of us differently, and the authentic response has billions of faces but only a single heart. Shabbat shalom.