Weekly Emor

Rav Yitzchak Zilber



Chapter "Emor" ( "Tell") considers the holiness laws co-hanim prohibiting them defiled by contact with a dead body and marry certain women categories (as mentioned in the introduction to the book "Leviticus"), as well as the sanctity of priesthood prohibit bringing in animal sacrifice was flawed, with the priests to a physical disability - to serve in the Temple, etc. In this chapter, the laws of Pesach are detailed, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret.

Just Parsha contains sixty-three commandments: thirty-nine prohibitions - lo taase, for example the prohibition of work on Passover and other holidays, and twenty-four prescription - ATU, for example an order to sanctify the Name of Gd by his actions. This is the second in the number of commandments contained in it, after the head of the Torah "Ki tetse" book "Deuteronomy". In connection with this feature of her talk a little bit about the commandments in general.