NO ONE OTHER than the Ramban seems to have the question, which is, why command the Jewish People to be holy in the middle of Sefer Vayikra when it should have been the introduction to the sefer itself? The entire book is about being holy, so the mitzvah should have either introduced the sefer or concluded it. Putting it in the middle of the sefer seems “nisht ahin nisht aher” (neither here nor there).
But, before we go there, the Torah reminds us about the need to perform the Bris on an eight-day old male which, quite frankly, seems out of place. True, the parsha starts off talking about birth, but there are other more relevant places for the mitzvah of Bris, which is why commentators try to learn something from it.
THE SIRENS USED to go off once a day, maybe twice. And they didn’t seem to go off at the most inconvenient times either, and even as late as Purim people didn’t seem to be fazed by the possibility of missiles reaching them or doing damage.
This Shabbos is Shabbos HaGadol and the tenth of Nisan, as it was the first time back in Egypt. That’s gotta mean something especially given what is going on today and so close to the end of history. It’s like a wormhole opening up to the very first Pesach.
THE TORAH WAS given to the Jewish People 3,338 years ago, and from the moment we received it, we have been elucidating it. Can you imagine how many commentaries have been written on the Torah alone over three millennia? And we’re still doing it.
