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Hearing Our Calling
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ou may have noticed The mitzvot, often translated that the Book of as commandments or laws, in Leviticus is a direct Leviticus, can seem antiquated, continuation from the Book for example, animal sacrificof Exodus. es. Animals and grain would In Hebrew we read Vayikra be offered, sacrificed, as a el Moshe … often way for ancient Israel translated as “The to engage as individuals Lord called to Moses and as a community with …” But the Hebrew God. There is a lot of verb vayikra doesn’t meaning to glean from explicitly include “the this text. For example, Davey Rosen to seek redemption, to Lord.” The English translation could read offer something deeply “and He called to personal, to let go can Parshat Moses …” require great sacrifices. Vayikra: The verse will We start the Book Leviticus immediately continof Leviticus just before 1:1-5:26; Isaiah ue, “and the Eternal Passover this year. The spoke to him from the 43:21-44:23. Passover story, our peoTent of Meeting;” the ple’s redemption and Eternal is connected liberation from Egypt, to the second verb va-yedaber is central to our people and — and He spoke. The verb to our brit, our covenant with vayikra is continuing from the the Eternal. With Leviticus previous book, Exodus. One continuing with God calling of our great commentators, to Moses, the Torah is teachRashbam, Rashi’s grandson, ing us that our liberation is teaches us God is calling to not over; there is much more Moses from the tent that had to do. just been built at the end of While we have been liberatExodus. Leviticus begins in ed from Pharaoh, we are then Exodus with God already called — vayikra — to be in calling out to Moses from the relationship with each other Tent of Meeting. and the Eternal. As individIn Exodus 24:16, a cloud, uals and as a community, we representing the Divine are called to make sacrifices Presence, settles upon Mount in order to truly remain free Sinai. God calls to Moses, from Pharaoh and carry the vayikra el Moshe, and so, too, in Torah in our hearts through Exodus 40:35, the cloud settles the wilderness. upon the Tent of Meeting, To paraphrase the late telling us the Mishkan is now Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, freea moving Mount Sinai. Now, dom from Pharaoh was much with the Divine Presence cov- easier than what would come ering the Tent of Meeting, the next, the freedom to create a people of Israel can move forjust and righteous society. ward with God at their center, Davey Rosen is rabbinic intern at and it is from there that the Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network Eternal calls out to Moses in and a rabbinic student at the Academy Leviticus 1:1. for Jewish Religion in New York.
