Parshah Behar-Bechukotai Leviticus 25:1-27:34 The Sabbatical and Jubilee years, doing business with G-d, reward and rebuke, and a system for evaluating value
Is Turning the Other Cheek a Jewish Value? I have been under the impression that “turning the other cheek” to your enemies is not a Jewish approach. But recently a friend pointed out the verse in Lamentations (3:30), “Let him offer his cheek to his smiter; let him be filled with reproach.”
When Does the Passover Story End? Our retelling of the Exodus on Passover ends when we close the Haggadah text. But when did the story really end?