This month, as Purim gives way to Passover, as snow turns to spring rains, we will come to the book of Leviticus in our Torah cycle.
With its chapters of priestly codes, sacrificial rites and often unmodern laws and restrictions, Leviticus can be challenging for some of us to read as contemporary, progressive Jews.
What does a user manual for Temple practice have to do with us, Reform Jews living a millennium after the destruction of said Temple?
What can we glean from its many teachings around sacrifice and ritual giving?