Daf Parashat Hashavua
(Study Sheet on the Weekly Torah Portion)
Basic Jewish Studies Unit

No. 124. Parashat Vayikra 5756, 1996
The Malbim : Leadership and Challenge as Reflected in his Introduction to Vayikra and His Torah Commentary "Hatorah Vehamitzvah"

Interesting biographical information about the Malbim:
http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/vayikra/geller.html








[The background is that I was telling my father in law yesterday [somewhat jokingly] that for mishlo'ach manot I wanted to send all the rabbis things like brocolli and fresh strawberries and lettuce, all the newly forbidden foods, maybe throw in a dvar torah from Torah Umaddah, that sort of thing: A heretic's shaloch manos. My FIL, who has little patience for my heresies, hands me a copy of the above dvar torah to admonish me. Read the dvar torah and you'll see the relevance in the paragraph beginning, 'The "enlighteners" in Bucharest'].