Parshat Behar-Bechukotai 5775/2015

My best Behar-Bechukotai post and links (nothing interesting more recently) is my 2012 version, Behar-Bechukotai, 5772/2012 thoughts

This year's observation:  Apparently the undervaluing of women goes back (at least) as far as the Torah.  :(  (See point 3 in the post linked above.)

~ Conservadox accepts the Soncino Chumash's explanation that the repetition of the prohibition against worshipping idols was aimed at Hebrew slaves sold to pagans.

~ Rav Shai Held says that what makes G-d special is G-d's inability to give up on the People whom G-d loves.