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thank you all for a good #ParshaChat, Rabbi & Bskies! Shabbat Shalom & Shavua Tov!
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"No other prohibitions are mentioned...Leaven and honey should be no different than chickens and ducks. Just as the Torah doesn't bother to prohibit the offering of chickens and ducks, so too, the Torah should not bother to prohibit the offering of leaven and honey on the altar." #ParshaChat
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"Given the flow of the text until this point, the prohibition of leaven and fruit-based sweets...seems rather striking. Until this point, and indeed throughout the remainder of Parashat Vayikra, the Torah details the appropriate objects and methods for the various types of korbanot.... #ParshaChat
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We've reached the end of the scheduled #ParshaChat, but please feel free to continue the conversation!
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There's *somewhere* in rabbinic literature that addresses why honey wasn't one of the incense ingredients, but I don't remember where. #ParshaChat
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LOL! like Mr Dr Science, who eats it all year -- I'm stocking up right now because this is when prices are lowest. #ParshaChat
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The only connection I can think of is that yeast eats sugar. #ParshaChat
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an olive-oil shortbread, almost -- a bread would be mixed with water, not oil. is the oil there just to make the grain hold together, and also burn better?
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and what does that have in common with *honey*?
To me, as a baker, it's curious because leaven & honey are both things that make baked goods taste *better*, fancier. Leaving them out means that Hashem must be given only a certain basic recipe: grain, oil, salt.
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It definitely *can* be ostentatious, but then, so can stillness. #ParshaChat
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A4: And this is getting me thinking about how, on the one hand, we understand matzah as the bread of affliction, on the other hand, we used it for offerings.
This makes me wonder: What if God likes matzah?
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When I was younger, I used to look at old Jewish men shuckling (rocking back & forth), or bowing, or covering their eyes at certain points during prayer and think they were ostentatious. Now, at 68, I do a lot of motions because I'm grateful my body will do them! #ParshaChat
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A4: Thinking about this in the context of smells has made me think about how sourdough starters definitely have a smell and it's definitely not universally enjoyed. #ParshaChat
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Q4: Looking at this because it's about leavening and Passover is soon: What's going on here? Why avoid leaven in offerings? Does it have any relationship to avoiding it on Passover? #ParshaChat
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Sensory-motor experiences *matter*, in ways that can't be replaced with philosophy, declarations of faith/principles/whatever, or with respectability. #ParshaChat
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One of the points I usually make is that when I go to synagogue I'm never the only one rocking, and no one thinks it's weird when I look at my tzitzit, so could we please be normal about that when I do it in a slightly different way in a slightly different context? #ParshaChat
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There's a talk I do sometimes for Jewish communities, "Using Jewish Culture to Understand Autism and Inclusion". and...
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I may or may not have anything spiritually compelling to say about the haggadah this year, but I'm going to sing the songs and eat matzah and marror, you know? #ParshaChat
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Yes! And I'd also add that: Ritual is there with us when words fail, and words fail in a *lot* of important moments. We cannot function on philosophy alone. #ParshaChat
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Yes. And some of these are more defined and some of them are more ambiguous. And I think having both is valuable! #ParshaChat
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Falling asleep #ParshaChat will catch up later
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Like being thankful, for instance? (or, in a later chapter, being unsure whether they have transgressed and made themselves guilty inadvertently?) #ParshaChat
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#ParshaChat and a fundamental part of havdala is a sweet smell, for God. Personally I have some cloves and allspice I use, or sometimes a bit of fresh mint from my window box. But the aesthetic, the sensory aspect of it, is a key part of it. Religion is what you do, and what you smell is what you do
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#ParshaChat but the bible is like "yeah, roasting meat smells good. incense smells good. of course. we're making stuff smell good for god. why is that weird to you"
obviously nowadays we don't have sacrifices anymore, but there's still an aesthetic aspect to it. havdalah just happened here
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#ParshaChat it makes me think about the importance of aesthetic in religion. I think sometimes some religions (cough cough calvinism) treat any sort of aesthetic aspect as not true religion. people treat ritual as a slur, as something inherently illogical and savage.
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Exactly. And Moses allowed Hashem to override his humility. #ParshaChat
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Q3: What's going on here? Why "a pleasing odor"? Is there a lesson we could learn about caring about people?
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