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1. The Parasha of the Festivals: Its Structure and Significance

   Rabbi Elchanan Samet

   The section dealing with the festivals in Parshat Emor raises a number of questions: What is the connection between Shabbat and the other festivals? Why does the Torah mention the commandments of leket and pe'ah in the middle of this section? Why is there a double conclusion for Sukkot? We can answer these questions by examining the structure of the parsha and its division into two parallel sections.

2. Leket and Pe'ah for the Poor: Everyone is Involved

   Rabbi David Silverberg

3. Leket, Peah, and Shavuot

   Rabbi David Silverberg

4. Rashi on Emor: Festivals and Fields

   Rabbi Jonathan Snowbell | 19 minutes

   We discuss Rashi on Parashat Emor.  One of Rashi’s comments touches upon the question of where our focus must be- on the Beit HaMikdash or on the foundation of a good society? In the midst of Parshat haMoadim (the section about the agricultural festivals), a  law about reaping fields reappears. Peah is an agricultural mitzva, and helping the poor is important, but what is this mitzva doing here? What accounts for the repetition after it appears in PArashat Kedoshim? What is the significance of its placement in the midst of the regalim (Pilgrimage Festivals)?