By Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein This week’s essay presents a meticulous examination of the Hebrew word cheilev (often translated simply as “fat” in English) and its ostensible synonyms. The word cheilev appears approximately 90 times throughout the Bible, with a plurality of those appearances clustered around the opening chapters of the Book of Leviticus in […]
This week, we read of an event similar to what we are experiencing today Avraham goes to war to free Lot, who has been captured. Though Lot was Avraham’s nephew, the Torah describes him as Avraham’s ach (brother). Why? Rabbeinu Bachaya explains that Avraham saw Lot as his brother, a first-degree relative whom he was responsible […]