The Fat is the Lord's: A Sermon for Parashat Vayikra
This week we begin the third book of the Torah, Vayikra or Leviticus. Much of this book concerns material that seems foreign to our modern world. It is a world of sacrifices; a world of animals and blood and fire. It is a world that seems far distant from our so-called civilized 21st century practices. So why study this text at all? Well, for several reasons; it is one of the Five Books of Moses and we have been reading it for centuries. The sacrificial system and the a
