it would probably make more sense to start at beginning of Chapter כח which starts with the process of appointing Aharon and creating the vestments of the בגדי כהונה. If we take a ...

Cardinal Michael Czerny, delegated by Pope Francis, presides over the Mass for the Jubilee of the World of Volunteering. He ...

The last deaconess of the Armenian Church was Hripsime Sasunian, who died in 2007. A decade after her death, in 2017, ...

Consider, first of all, the passage we’ve just seen from near the beginning of the book of Exodus, when God tells Moses that ...

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their ...

The much longer exile of Greece ended through the merit of Jacob. But the last and current exile has lasted nearly 2,000 ...

Lent, the season of penitence, is the preparation of the soul to accompany the Lord in the Passion. It begins now, and ...

However, priesthood goes back much farther, way before Exodus 32 and the ordination of the Levites to the service of Yahweh, and Aaron’s ordination as high priest. How much farther back?

According to this approach, the garments are intended to enhance the dignity and splendor of the priest in the eyes of the people. Ramban also offers an alternate understanding. "By way of the ...

*Write a prayer of gratitude for God’s willingness to dwell with you today. Background: God instructed His people to build a ...

The word kavod – dignity or honor – appears sixteen times, but in fourteen (2x7) of these cases the reference is to the glory of G-d.

In the Old Testament we can read the account of the female prophet, teacher, and leader Huldah who  played a key role in ...