Jeremy Rosen
Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Leviticus 9:22
Summary
Study the text of the Bible weekly with Jeremy Rosen through a combination of traditional, critical, and personal perspectives. No knowledge of Hebrew or the Bible is necessary. You may use any Bible text you may have or you can go to sefaria.org. This week will begin with Leviticus 9:22.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
Almost definitely, because, you know, if I can give an unfair example, look at Chabad, how they regard vodka as being an aid to spirituality because you relax, because you let yourself open to new experiences. And so, yes, alcohol has often and always been used as an aid to spirituality. I just think, in my opinion, much as I have a lot of sympathy with a lot of Hasidism, if you need something artificial to help you get to God, it’s delusion. It’s not the real thing. That’s my particular take.
No. The straight answer is no. And these were regarded as simply part of the temple purity as opposed to what everybody normally was doing.
Well, because salmon does have fins and scales. You can see it. You know, you look at the carcass of a, you watch those nature programmes of bears eating salmon out of the river and you can actually see on them their fins and scales.