29/30 Acharei-Kedoshim: Day 3 (Tuesday) | Sacrifice to Molech



4 Iyar 5786 AM | 1 AVE.

Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us by Your Spirit and invited the nations to share in the richness of Your Word. We thank You for the people and state of Israel, including the Messiah, our First Fruits, through whom the harvest of life has begun.

Today is the seventeenth day of the Omer according to the minority Sadducean and Essene counts, which is 2 weeks and 3 days.

May the Spirit of Truth prepare my heart for the revelation of the 50th day.

4:31 PM EDT in Albany. 

Jonathan Writes:

The reading for this morning is Leviticus 17:8-18:21.

This is the link to the Daily Chumash with Rashi at Chabad.

The Daily Wisdom from the Lubavitcher Rebbe is titled "The Child's Environment." 

Gemini offers this reflection: "Your reading today concludes with one of the most haunting prohibitions in the Torah: 'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech' (Lev. 18:21). On this Yom HaZikaron, where Israel remembers 25,644 fallen security personnel, this verse takes on a visceral weight. The prohibition of Molech is a rejection of the cult of death—the idea that we can secure our future by passing our seed through the fire. You might see the current regional struggle as a battle against modern Molechs—ideologies (like those of the IRGC or Hamas) that view human life as disposable fuel for a revolutionary fire."

I am sharing three videos today:

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