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Parashah of the week: Emor

“You shall count seven weeks from the day after the ‘sabbath’ on which you bring an omer of grain as a wave-offering – seven complete weeks. You shall count to the day after the seventh week, making fifty days” Leviticus 23:15-16

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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Shavuot marked the wheat harvest in ancient times (photo: Getty)

The Drunkards by Paul Cezanne - Nachmanides warned against excessive behaviour even when not prohibited by the Torah (Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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Lepers outside the camp (A Dictionary of the Bible, Philip Schaff, 1887/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Tazria-Metzora

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

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The bodies of Nadab and Abihu are carried from the Tabernacle (James Tissot, 1836-1902/Wikimedia Commons)

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Parashah of the week: Shemini

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

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Parashah: Seventh Day Pesach

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

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Parashah of the week: Tzav

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

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Parashah of the week: Vayikra

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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Parashah of the week: Pekudei

“The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, corresponding to their names; engraved like seals, each with its name, for the twelve tribes” Exodus 39:14

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Parashah of the week: Vayakhel

“And everyone who excelled in ability and everyone whose spirit was moved came, bringing to the Lord an offering for the labour of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service and for the sacral vestments” Exodus 35:21

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Parashah of the week: Ki Tissa

“And he saw … and he threw the tablets from his hands shattering them” Exodus 32:19

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Parashah of the week: Tetzaveh

“And they shall know that I the Eternal am their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them — I, the Eternal, their God” Exodus 29:44

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Parashah of the week: Terumah

“And the priest Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in its lid… and the priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought into the House of God” 2 Kings 12:10

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Parashah of the week: Mishpatim

“Do not subvert the rights of the needy in their disputes” Exodus 23:6

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Parashah of the week: Yitro

“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, and God rested on the seventh day; therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” Exodus 20:11

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