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#menachot #masehetmenachot #tefillin #talkingtalmud #wordshavewings #davening #prayer #sacrifice #sacrificeandprayer Hello Friends! This is a week of double posts- something that I haven't done in quite a while. Because Masechet Menachot, is 110 pages, it has been a little more than 110 days since my last entry on my Daf Yomi travels. We are in year six of the seven-year cycle, and we are now beginning Masechet Chullin. (It's a good time to join in!) You can find other Daf

#tzav #ritual #sacrifice #leviticus #vayikra #parsha #wordshavewings #sheets #memories #hospitalcorners #everydaythings #thingswedo #brushingourteeth #makingthebed #torah #seder #passover #order #orderliness #rituals #ritual Is it any surprise that Parshat Tzav comes in advance of Pesach? For both Pesach and Shabbat have something in common and that is that in life there is a certain order to things. In the case of Korbanot, you can be sure that whether it is the Korban Toda

#vayikra #parshatvayikra #leviticus #thelawsofthekohanim #sacrifice #ididntnotice #didntpayattention #whatwedontnotice #easiertoignore Hello Everyone, No poem this week; just a few observations. I hope they resonate with you as we begin the middle book of the Torah, Sefer Vayikra. OBSERVATION ONE Each week for the past 2 1/2 years, a small group of us have studied the parsha together online. I present themes from the parsha and things that I am curious about, and the partici

#masechetzevachim #dafyomi #apageaday #talkingtalmud #siyum #sacrifice #daf56azevachim #whyiremember #memory #sharingplace #pastandpresent #storiesmyfathertoldus #holocaust #poland Occasionally in Words Have Wings I write two posts in one week instead of one. This occurs on weeks when we complete a tractate of the Talmud and mark it with a siyum. As I skate across the very wide sea of Daf Yomi, for each of the tractates that we complete I write one poem. The poem may just poi

#shemini #parshatShemini #vayikra #sefervayikra #nadavandavihu #nadav #avihu #fire #sacrifice #mishkan Parshat Shemini continues onward...

#tazria #metzora #tazriametzora #blood #birds #sacrifice #ancientrituals #tzaraat This week we will read two highly unusual parshiyot,...

#insevendays #sevendays #tzav #parshattzav #aaron #sacrifice #vayikra #aaronandhissons #sevendaysofcreation #covid #storms #disease #war...

#sacrifice #isaac #bindingofisaac #vayikra #korban #mincha This Shabbat we read Parshat Tzav in the book of Vayikra. Parshat Tzav speaks...

#tables #diningroomtable #diningroom #shabbat #wordshavewings #parshatvayikra #vayikra #leviticus #sacrifice #alter Hello. We have just...