Parashat Re'eh 2017
Parasha for the Week: Re’eh Deuteronomy 11:26 – 16:27Haftara for the Week: Isaiah 54:22 –…
Yom Kippur is described in Leviticus 16. This entire chapter describes how the ordinance of the Day of Atonement was to be carried out in the sanctuary and later in the temple of Jerusalem. That's why the sanctuary and its services are very important for the people of Israel. God himself commanded Moses to build a sanctuary. "Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them" (Exodus 25:8). The services of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were completely dependent on the sanctuary. That's why we have to be aware that today; nobody, even the Jewish people, celebrates the feasts as they are described in the Bible. Each one has his own traditions of what is to be done today in the absence of the sanctuary and the priesthood established by God in the Torah.