Read Mordechai Beck's interview with Avivah Zornberg. Most readers think Leviticus is about dull things: priests and their sacrificial offerings, blood taboos and bodily fluids, the holiness code. In ...
Not only are the four kinds and the tabernacle different in character; they are even seemingly opposed to one another. The four kinds and the rituals associated with them are about rain.
He added that the rules acted "like a kind of religion, detailed rituals you just obeyed, Leviticus like in the ... The most contrition both in the book and in the interview comes on how he ...