A Parsha Companion - Leviticus

In this third of five Parsha Companions, Rabbi David Fohrman asks questions that, in hindsight, seem like they were staring you in the face the whole time. He discerns nuance. He detects patterns in the original Hebrew that once you see them - seem to leap off the page. And he shows how many of these discoveries, astound- ingly, aren't really "new" at all, but were sug- gested thousands of years ago by the ancient sages of the Talmud and Midrash themselves.

Underneath Rabbi Fohrman's approach to bib- lical text lies a simple conviction: inasmuch as reading a book is like having a conversation with its author, reading the Bible is like having a conversation with our Creator. When we read the Torah, therefore, we should do it the way we should converse with those who are deeply important to us: stop talking so much; slow down... and just listen.

In Leviticus: A Parsha Companion, Rabbi Fohr- man helps the reader really listen to the Torah - carefully, lovingly, and attentively. The reader's reward is the chance to perceive the richness in the Torah many of us had never imagined was there, and to be touched deeply by a close encounter with the words or our Maker.