Sh’mini – שְׁמִינִי (Levicitus 9:1-11:47)
This Week’s Torah Portion: Sh’mini – שְׁמִינִי (Levicitus 9:1-11:47)
Leviticus is about getting close to the sacred. Getting near the Divine.
The book begins with the Mitzvah “when a person sacrifices to Adonai” the Hebrew word for sacrifice can also be read as getting close, getting near.
The Torah of Leviticus teaches me that we need to make sacrifices to get close to the Divine, just as we need to make sacrifices as we attempt to get close to people.