Torah and Temptation

Every Yom Kippur in shul, at least one person asks me the obvious question. Why, at Minchah, the afternoon service, on the holiest day of the year, do we read about the most unholy of behaviors? The reading is from Leviticus 18, and there’s a whole listing of the incestuous and extramarital relationships forbidden by the Torah.  You might call it the Bible’s immorality code. But why read this, of all things, on Yom Kippur, at our most sacred and hallowed time? Read Full Article »